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Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Rebecca Costa - Why Society Sometimes Needs to Collapse and How We Can Predict the Future

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week's guest, Rebecca Costa, is one of my new favorite people on the planet. She and I speak the same language (of the nerds), but don't worry. You'll surely find her as enlightening and entertaining as I did.Rebecca was introduced to me by Dr. Jed Diamond, who recently featured some of my work in an article on his website and will be next week's guest on Slo Mo. Rebecca Costa is an American sociobiologist, futurist, author, and host of the podcast, The Costa Report. She is the pre...

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0:00.0

I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

0:16.3

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

0:20.2

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

0:25.0

Welcome to slow mop. My guest today is a prominent global expert on the subject of fast adaptation.

0:41.6

She's a sociobiologist, a futurist, and an author, the host of a very successful weekly news

0:49.3

program that is now becoming a podcast called The Costa report.

0:55.0

Rebecca is a prominent global expert on the subject of fast adaptation,

1:01.0

where she brings both an evolutionary biologist and a technologist

1:05.4

perspective together to look at how trends of adaptation of societies and the

1:11.3

human race actually work.

1:13.0

Rebecca was the founder and CEO of one of the largest technology marketing firms in California

1:19.0

and has been at the forefront of technological and scientific innovation as she continued to assist venture capitalists

1:27.5

and large corporations to identify, fund and launch disruptive new trends.

1:34.5

Retiring at the peak of her career in Silicon Valley,

1:37.9

Rebecca spent six years researching and writing

1:40.8

the international bestseller, The Watchman's Rattle, a radical new

1:45.4

theory of collapse, a book I cannot recommend enough. In the Watchman's Rattle, she uses data science to identify points at which societies collapse.

1:58.6

Her next book then was titled On the Verge and was introduced in 2017 to critical activity. on the The Success of her books of course led to her news program, The Costa Report, which was very, very successful and is now leading her to her new podcast, The Costa Report.

2:22.0

I know the work of Rebecca for a long time. I love how data and

2:27.4

facts driven she is and yet we're not just going to talk about data but we're really going to talk about society and what

2:36.2

history tells us about where we are today as the human race and where we might be going from here.

2:45.0

Without further ado, Rebecca Costa.

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