Part 9/15:
The conversation explores the idea that technological leaps, like the advent of writing, the Industrial Revolution, and now AI, are singularities—points of rapid transformation. However, Howard Bloom challenges the notion that these are true discontinuities; he suggests they are part of a gradual, evolutionary process running through history, akin to biological punctuated equilibrium. Humanity's unchanging nature—its capacity for both destruction and compassion—is a continuous thread through these shifts.