More From Less, with Andrew McAfee and Hugo Lindgren

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode we are joined by Andrew McAfee, the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources. In an interview with journalist Hugo Lindgren, McAfee explores his counterintuitive theory of how we’re past the point of 'peak stuff'– because of the collaboration between technology and capitalism, it’ll take fewer resources to make things in the future, and cost less to lead a comfortable life. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to this episode of the Intelligence Squared Podcast.
1:03.0	This was another episode recorded in New York City.
1:06.0	We had the journalist Hugo Lindgren interviewing Andrew McAfee,
1:09.0	who is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-founder of the MIT Initiative of the
1:15.8	Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. McAfee has a fascinating
1:21.1	theory which is that even though there'll be more people in the future
1:24.8	and they'll be wealthier and consume even more, they'll do so while using far fewer natural resources
1:30.5	and that will move past the point of peak stuff.
1:33.5	So from here or now, it'll take far fewer resources to make things
1:37.0	and it'll cost less to live a comfortable life
1:39.3	even though the population will have expanded rapidly.
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