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Niall Ferguson on Whether a New Era Has Begun

On this episode of the Exponentially podcast, the historian explains whether this moment in time is unique—or just history repeating itself.

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From war to demographic changes and rapid advances in artificial intelligence, along with widening inequality, faltering democracies and the existential threat of global warming, what lessons can we draw from history about the challenges humans face now? Which are the echoes of the past where history can be instructional, and which are genuinely unprecedented?