A clip of Carl Sagan on Charlie Rose in the 1990s goes viral. Sagan warns of an ignorant polity, unwieldy technology and authoritarian government, and this elicits the expected arguments over which authoritarian regime (Trump? Biden?) demonstrates Sagan’s warning. Which is, in my view, what Sagan couldn’t predict — how severely media has divided us.
NB#1: Sagan died of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone marrow disease. In the podcast, I wrongly suggest it was cancer.
NB#2: I recorded this early with some people in my house asleep, hence the quiet voice.