Welcome to our new podcast, Call Me Back, where we try to zoom out from minute to minute

news and look back to how we got here.

But we can learn from earlier decades and where we might be going in these roaring and raging

20s. In each episode I'll call a friend who is deeply immersed in some of the

most transformative issues of our time. Broadly speaking I want to focus this

podcast on this decade we're in, the 20-20s, because it strikes me that we'll look

back at the 20-20s as one of the most consequential decades in modern history.

From inflation and unprecedented fiscal and monetary policies, the technological

transformation driven by AI, blockchain, and life sciences, to the rise of China and Cold War II to declining

American engagement in the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, all against the backdrop of culture wars, public safety breakdowns, and of course

a public health crack up as we come out of the pandemic.

This podcast is a natural transition from our post-Corona podcast

where we try to understand larger trends being shaped and accelerated by the pandemic.

No doubt we'll continue to delve into those topics on this new podcast,

as we haven't fully processed how profound and long lasting some of these changes will be.

We'll also try to feature guests that can help us provide some historical context to call us back to a previous

period where we can learn a thing or two from the past about what we're dealing with now.

Our first episode will be later this week with historian, author, daring public

intellectual and always interesting and provocative Neil Ferguson. Look out for it

and feel free to drop me a line with ideas for the new podcast at

Dan at unlocked.fm. See you soon. you're