The big three, I guess, are nobody can work, nobody can transact, and then the government loses all legitimacy and the rule of law collapses.

There's a reason they call us the dismal science.

Yo, technology, what is it all about?

Hello and welcome. What is it all about?

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.

We are back with another pod.

So on the previous episode with Seth Bannon,

I actually felt pretty encouraged.

Some kind of raise of positivity there.

This one, I think, is a good way to kind of step back and look at the broader context of just these extraordinary times and what is required basically to get back

to life as we know it or some approximation of it.

And to do that, in a Danny in the Valley first, we have brought on Nobel Prize winner,

Paul Romer, who won the Nobel back in 2018 for economics. So yes, there you go. Now we have

Nobel Prize winners as well as billionaires and startup entrepreneurs and everybody else.

And what you're about to hear is at the same time, completely daunting, but also wildly

doable.

And like our guest last week, Dr. Yanatus, it comes down very simply according to how Romer views

it to testing, lots of testing, as well as protective equipment like face masks, etc. And both of which need to be

produced and used on an industrial scale now. Anyhow, Romer is very forthright and clear-eyed about

what is happening here, what needs to happen here, and I think you'll find it illuminating,

and though the terms he speaks and are quite

stark. I also think there is reason for hope here because it feels all quite doable, like I said.

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