A Greek embrace and two kisses.

Two kisses. Not one.

In Iran and Russia it's. And two kisses.

kisses.

In Iran and Russia it's three.

But don't take notes on that.

I need sort of geopolitics watches.

China is set to flood Europe with cheap microprocessors and electric vehicles.

Israel is presently overseeing a second NACBA, war crimes, I think, ethnic cleansing.

The EU was looking at trying to start a run on the Hungarian currency.

The United States is polarized and seemingly disoriented, potentially within years confronting a state of collapse.

And a revolutionary state in the Middle East has pretty successfully blockaded a strategic

choke point for global logistics and it's only February. It's only February.

And what this tells us is we do live in a moment of profound disruption transformation change.

And I don't mean that in the platitudinous clean disruption transformation change.

And I don't mean that in the platitudinous, cliched way we've been told for the last 25 years,

it's actually happening.

Some of these changes are once in a generation, some once in a century, some once in several centuries.

So big times and big events call for big ideas, and I can't think of anyone better to discuss big ideas than this evening's guest.

Janice Ferra-Fakus, he's a former finance minister, academic, economist, author, his most recent book, Technophudalism, I believe

it's available to buy at the front.

I saw him signing copies very fastidiously earlier on.

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