The Intelligence: The Economist reads
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What can A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke tell us about AI? Does Shakespeare's Othello contain a warning for the 2024 US presidential election? Our journalists (and our listeners, too) recommend books that might help us better understand our times.
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| 0:00.0 | This Economist podcast is |
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| 0:30.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm your host, Ora O'Connor. Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm your host, Ora O'Anbe. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's show is something a bit different. |
| 0:50.0 | It's a book's takeover. |
| 1:04.0 | At Christmas time, I love to wind down with a good book and catch up on my to read list and how alarmingly long it's growing during the year. And it seems that so do you. |
| 1:06.0 | One of the paper's most popular sections this year has been The Economist reads. |
| 1:10.0 | In it, our correspondence, our editors and our producers, write about what to read to understand |
| 1:16.4 | topics as diverse as indigenous Australians, border and battles and dementia. |
| 1:22.4 | And as the year comes to a close, we're bringing new ideas |
| 1:25.0 | about what to read to understand the time that we're living in today. |
| 1:28.3 | Several of our correspondence and listeners will be recommending books that help to them |
| 1:33.3 | understand the moment that we're currently living through. And with me in the |
| 1:36.9 | studio to discuss it all is Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor. Hi Ollie |
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