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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The basis of human life is built upon various elements. Have we forgotten how important they are? Sky News’ economics editor, Ed Conway, explores whether we’ve lost touch with them in his new book Material World – and why they could fuel our downfall or build a better future. He joins Alex Andreou in The Bunker to discuss. “We have forgotten some of the physical underpinnings of our time.” – Ed Conway “The internet is not an ethereal thing, it is a physical product.” – Ed Conway “My objective was to try and remind ourselves of the stuff around us and explain how they began in the ground.” – Ed Conway “There was a time where it seemed like the electrical age couldn’t begin because there wasn’t enough copper.” – Ed Conway www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Simon Williams Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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0:55.9	theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I am your host Alex Andro. We tend to think of our world as increasingly
1:16.8	intangible. I hold in my hand a device exponentially more powerful than the 32 kilogram supercomputer that guided NASA's Apollo 11 mission,
1:27.0	ready to latch on to a wireless connection and link me to vast online data that can satisfy my curiosity on any matter, but rarely does that curiosity
1:36.5	turn to the physical object in my hand.
1:40.0	My guest today is Ed Conway, a prize-winning journalist broadcaster and
1:43.6	currently Sky News Economics and Data Editor. He seeks to redirect our focus back
1:49.1	to those physical objects essential to the ethereal world in his new book material world.
1:55.8	Welcome to the bunker Ed Conway.
1:57.8	Thanks Alex, good to be here.
1:59.8	Ed, why did you feel the book needed to be written?
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