AGETECH AEON - Ep 1

AGETECH AEON - Ep 1

Author: Ampel December 2, 2025 Duration: 20:50

Abby Bloom wants us to face an uncomfortable truth: we need a lot more space and time for care in our culture. A rapidly aging population - living twenty to thirty years longer than the generations preceding - means we're going to have to rethink and redesign our lives, our work and our whole civilisation so that we don't disappear beneath a burden of care that no one can bear alone. How do we make that transition? Abby's new book "The Cost of Not Caring", offers some suggestions. It's the shadow looming over all our bright futures - and it's front and centre on THE NEXT BILLION SECONDS.

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Author: Language: en-au Episodes: 100

The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce
Podcast Episodes
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Duration: 22:08
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Are You Crypto Crazy? Hopium and Silver Linings [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:11
In the middle of a bad 'crypto winter', Mark and Josh go looking for good news. All this bad news has a silver lining, as folks wean themselves off 'hopium' into more realistic expectations for the future. Featuring Ampe…
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Duration: 23:34
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Duration: 22:29
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Duration: 13:41
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TNBS Rerun - Smart Money [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:14
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Duration: 40:18
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