In an Age of Techno-Pessimism, Here's the Science-Based Case for Optimism | Rob Marciano

Hey everybody, welcome to the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. We're living in a time where people are, I think quite legitimately, uh pretty pessimistic and anxious about the state of the world, specifically as it pertains to technology and specifically as it pertains to artificial intelligence, but not just artificial intelligence. Uh so today we're going to talk about how to be less pessimistic and anxious.

In other words, we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna hear the evidence-based, science-based uh case for actually being optimistic. And that case is going to be laid out for us by an old friend of mine, an old colleague as well. His name is Rob Marciano. Right now he's the national weather correspondent for CBS News. Um, he's been in television news for more than 30 years.

He's a Cornell trained scientist. Uh, before CBS, he worked uh with me at ABC News. We were co-hosts of uh uh Weekend Good Morning America, and we're also uh personal friends. Uh, and he's got a new book that he has co-written with a physicist named uh James Treffel, and the book is called The Next Big Thing Innovations for a Better, Smarter, Stronger Tomorrow. The Optimist case about the uh future of the planet coming up after this quick break with Rob Marciano.

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