meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Jordan Harbinger Show

510: Rob Reid | Why the Future is a Good Kind of Scary

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rob Reid (@Rob_Reid) is a tech entrepreneur, early-stage tech investor, author of After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, and host of the After On Podcast.

What We Discuss with Rob Reid:
  • While COVID-19 has been devastating on a global scale, it's comparatively benign when we consider how bad it could have been with a deadlier, more transmissible virus and a decimated infrastructure without access to basic necessities.
  • What gain of function research is, and why it's so dangerous in a world where even the most secure laboratories can leak pathogens into the general population.
  • The death toll inflicted by society's suicidal mass murderers is limited only by the weapons they have available -- whether they're guns, knives, airplanes, or synthetically manufactured superviruses created by soon-to-be commonplace genetic manipulation technology.
  • The steps we can take as an international community to fend off the malevolent efforts of a few bad actors by creating an infrastructure that can detect and prevent the spread of any potential future pandemic.
  • How DNA printers with the ability to create pandemic-defying vaccines on demand may become as common in the home as smoke alarms.
  • And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/510

Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course!

Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:02.8

You find they're always fighting the last war, preparing for the last war.

0:07.0

Like the French, you know, right before World War II,

0:10.0

who had built walls and trenches and so forth that were very well envisioned for trench warfare,

0:15.2

which was what World War I was.

0:17.4

But World War II was mechanized, and now they didn't envision tanks,

0:20.6

they didn't envisage panzer units, you know, let's create the whole nine.

0:24.4

My worry is that we're going to come out of COVID, preparing for the last pandemic,

0:29.4

rather than the next pandemic.

0:31.2

And all we know about the next pandemic is two things.

0:34.2

A, it's coming, for sure, at some point.

0:38.0

And B, it's going to be very different from COVID.

0:44.6

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:46.8

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills

0:50.2

of the world's most fascinating people.

0:51.8

We have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game,

0:55.0

astronauts and entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists,

0:58.2

even the occasional billionaire investor, drug trafficker or neuroscientist.

1:02.8

Each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice

1:06.0

that you can use to build a deeper understanding of how the world works

1:09.6

and become a better critical thinker.

1:11.8

If you're new to the show or you're looking for a handy way to tell your friends about it,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jordan Harbinger, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jordan Harbinger and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.