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The episode reflects on the post-apocalyptic trend in modern fiction and explores various technological trends throughout history and prehistory.

A reflection on the post-apocalyptic trend in modern fiction, starting with an epiphany experienced while rereading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. The speaker explores technological trends in history, prehistory and the future, from Gobekli Tepe to the present and beyond. Archaeology, history, literature, mathematics and the Technological Singularity all find their way into the thread of the monologue.

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