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Ryan Bridge: Why's the world so hectic at the moment? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Everyone keeps asking why the world feels so hectic at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. If li for a movie, surely they would
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  Speaker 1: call it one battle after another. Winston Peter's Judith Collins,
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  Speaker 1: all of their counterparts in Europe, pretty much everywhere else
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  Speaker 1: in the world all agree we're living in the most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous era since the World wars. But why, Yes, there's Trump,
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  Speaker 1: He's unpredictable, he's a bit nuts. But Trump is really
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  Speaker 1: just a symptom of a wider problem, which is basically
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  Speaker 1: the decline of America. Isn't it the last death rattle
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  Speaker 1: of a superpower who knows its time is up? China's
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  Speaker 1: military spending grew from one sixth to one third of
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  Speaker 1: America's in the past decade. India about to overtake Germany
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  Speaker 1: is the third largest economy in the world. The Russians
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  Speaker 1: still hammering Ukraine four years into a European War, and
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  Speaker 1: now Iran. But the world has lived through bigger wars before.
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  Speaker 1: Its survived bigger battles. It survived the Spanish flu, It's COVID.
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  Speaker 1: What's really changed that makes this feel more doomsday is
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  Speaker 1: basically two things. I reckon globalization. Antich chnology took us
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  Speaker 1: thousands of years to invent the wheel. Remember that, well,
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  Speaker 1: you won't. It was long time ago. But in just
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  Speaker 1: the last six months, we've created the most popular open
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  Speaker 1: source technology project humanity has ever seen. It's called openclre.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, google it. It's an AI
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  Speaker 1: personal assist that they can basically run your entire life
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  Speaker 1: at the click of a button. That's happened in six months.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't exist six months ago. We invent new technologies,
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  Speaker 1: and the technologies now invent things themselves. They reshape labor markets,
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  Speaker 1: they reshape entire economies and warfare. All you need now
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  Speaker 1: is a couple of thirty thousand dollar drones, few speed boats,
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  Speaker 1: and you can hold the world to ransom, not nuke's,
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  Speaker 1: not a standing army, just a couple of drones and
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  Speaker 1: a boat. We've made global trade and air travel so
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  Speaker 1: efficient that we've come to rely on it more heavily
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  Speaker 1: than we ever have before. We close our oil refineries
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  Speaker 1: we import it instead, So when someone catches a flu
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  Speaker 1: in China or Ohi gets choked in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 1: we're basically buggered. News travels fast. We know what's happened
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  Speaker 1: as soon as it happens. And so to the effects
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  Speaker 1: of crisis and chaos abroad. Maybe the world only feels
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  Speaker 1: so dangerous because we've made it so small. For more
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