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Internet doomsayer debunked!

Internet doomsayer debunked!

... or at least challenged.

Robert Wright
Feb 09, 2021
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It’s always unsettling when demonstrably prescient people peer into the future and look alarmed. So I was disturbed (initially) to read in the New York Times last week about a man who decades ago foresaw many of our current troubles and now thinks they’re going to get worse.

The man is Michael Goldhaber, a 78-year-old physicist who popularized the term …

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