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CYBER

Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There’s a lot of reasons to be worried about the future. Climate change, nuclear weapons, space junk, and World War III are all threats both present and long-term. But, every day, people are trying to make the world a better place. It lands them in weird situations like skinny dripping with Soviet officers at the height of the Cold War or getting drunk with engineers in North Korea.


This week on Cyber, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis stops by to tell us all about the brave men and women who took a chance, reached out, and helped prevent the world from falling into oblivion. Lewis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies on the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Faculty. His new podcast, The Reason We’re All Still Here, explores the apocalypse with an air of hope for the future.


Go here to check out The Reason We’re All Still Here


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells you everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:29.8

So Jeffrey Lewis, will you do an experiment with me?

0:32.8

Okay.

0:34.0

And this is the show, by the way, now.

0:36.8

I usually do this, I know, I usually do this big bombastic opening for this show, which is cyber, a hello out there on the internet.

0:45.2

But I've been thinking lately that I like, especially for what we do is like a more intimate chat show.

0:51.6

And I think like a softer opening may work better.

0:56.1

So we're going to try that this time.

0:57.9

One of the joys of that is that I get to force the guest to introduce themselves.

1:05.2

Okay.

1:05.4

Can I do it in like the kind of calm, quiet, national public radio voice?

1:12.3

Please.

1:12.9

Please do.

1:14.1

Hmm.

1:14.6

Okay, yeah.

1:16.3

So I'm Dr. Jeffrey Lewis.

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