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Published · transcript-backedDaniel Yergin: belief
18 Sept 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin
“The most important thing are the technologies that you can see coming or the ones that come from left field like fracking or grasping what AI is going to mean for how our economies work. But I think you made a very important point and that was the discovery in COVID.”
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- Daniel Yergin
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- 18 Sept 2024
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…It was like in the first chapter of Moby Dick. Exactly and then it came to an end. It came to an end because of the electric light. Things are not going to stand still. The most important thing are the technologies that you can see coming or the ones that come from left field like fracking or grasping what AI is going to mean for how our economies work. But I think you made a very important point and that was the discovery in COVID. You don't have to travel, you can do it by electrons. Here’s one of the final questions I wanted to ask you. If somebody were to write a definitive history for another subject that's not energy—you don't have to personally write it, you can just delegate it to somebody else to do it and they'll do a good job—is there a topic which you feel could make for another thousand-page fascinating history of the world?…
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