Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopias
Podcast: Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.comPublished On: Sun Mar 01 2020
Description: For my latest podcast, I read my 2017 Wired op-ed, Disasters Don’t Have to End in Dystopias, a discussion of the themes in my novel Walkaway. The thesis is that our estimations of probability of danger are unduly influenced by our ability to vividly imagine that danger (this is called the “availability heuristic”), so stories... more
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