#9 Classic episode - Christine Peterson on the '80s futurist movement & its lessons for today

<b>Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2017.</b><br><br> Take a trip to Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s, when going to space sounded like a good way to get around environmental limits, people started cryogenically freezing themselves, and nanotechnology looked like it might revolutionise industry – or turn us all into grey goo.<br><br> In this episode of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, Christine Peterson takes us back to her youth in the Bay Area, the ideas she encountered there, and what the dreamers she met did as they grew up.<br><br> <b>Links to learn mo...