This week, The Ezra Klein Show examined the predictions and assumptions that shaped Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler's influential book "Abundance," asking which forecasts have held up and which have fallen short in the years since publication. The episode explores how optimistic futurism can both inspire necessary progress and obscure the actual constraints—technological, political, and economic—that determine whether abundance reaches everyone or remains concentrated.
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