Space Revolution Ep. 18: Technology in History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but it Sure Does Rhyme - Pt 2
Cohost Matt Trump finally makes it on the mic after last week's traffic detour, and the wait was worth it. He brings a giant lens: humanity over millennia, with Johan Huizenga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages as the anchor. Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast riffs alongside him.
The framing is unforgettable. Matt calls our current moment the return of the future. In the 1960s, with Apollo and Star Trek, humanity was thinking in millennia. Then we pulled in the sails. Under Trump and Musk, we are unfurling them again. The deep-dive walks through the Portuguese caravel breakthrough that opened the…
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