It is difficult to even know what happened in the past, leave alone predicting the future. But one day, when our brave hosts were asked what the world will look like in 2050, they decided to have some fun.

Welcome to Episode 106 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit and Ajay make 15 predictions about 2050 in full humility, likely to be wrong, but hey, that will give us a mea culpa episode in 2050! Too much fun, this episode is, as they talk about trends and specifics. Watch!

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00 Packaging00:13 Intro: ‘The Great Tragedy of My Life’03:25 Chapter 1: The Future of the Past15:29 Chapter 2: Setting It Up17:30 Chapter 3: Our Entertainment Will be Auto-Generated by AI24:28 Chapter 4: Technology Will Give Us FEELING on Demand29:35 Chapter 5: We Will Deepen Our Connections With Both Machines and People40:46 Chapter 6: Relationships Will Be Remapped48:07 Chapter 7: We Will Have Truly Global Cities58:34 Chapter 8: Gene Editing Will Be Commonplace1:02:08 Chapter 9: Energy Will Be Cheaper1:07:07 Chapter 10: Brain-Machine Interfaces Will Flourish1:12:27 Chapter 11: There Will Be Mining in the Asteroid Belt1:14:57 Chapter 12: Warfare Will Be Fully Robotic1:24:39 Chapter 13: Meat Will Be Grown in Labs1:30:11 Chapter 14: Transport Will Be Radically More Efficient1:35:26 Chapter 15: Reproduction Will Happen Inside Machines1:37:50 Chapter 16: There Will Be Unexpected Demographic Developments1:44:16 Chapter 17: Climate Change Will Remain a Problem1:51:26 Chapter 18: Recommendations

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Last week, we spoke about how manufacturing in India has been hobbled by the state for decades, and continues to be in a bad way. But does that mean the state should now direct its focus on it?

No!

Welcome to Episode 105 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In the second of a two-parter, Ajay lays out his argument for why the state should not pick winners, not just within a sector but also among sectors. State coercion makes everything worse!

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00 Packaging00:13 Intro: ‘Development economists are a creepy bunch.’02:42 Chapter 1: The Traditional View11:06 Chapter 2: Mugged by Reality22:17 Chapter 3: What’s the New Model?32:24 Chapter 4: What Happened to the Bombay Dream?45:10 Chapter 5: Let’s Talk About Food, Baby!51:21 Chapter 6: Some Lessons54:11 Chapter 7: Recommendations

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Manufacturing in India was hobbled by the state for many decades after Independence — and is still not in great shape. Why is this so? How can we move forward?

Welcome to Episode 104 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In the first of a two-parter, Ajay lays out the grim reality today, and Amit gives a historical perspective. In the next episode, we discuss why Industrial Policy would be the worst way to tackle this.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00 Packaging00:13 Intro: The Travails of the Indian Businessman05:12 Chapter 1: The Hard Facts about Indian Manufacturing09:07 Chapter 2: The Difference Between Manufacturing and Services28:43 Chapter 3: A Historical View43:47 Chapter 4: The Problems with Indian Manufacturing TODAY1:08:05 Chapter 5: The Union and the State1:09:49 Chapter 6: Recommendations

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