Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this nearly </span><strong>4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming </span><strong>danger of a man-made pandemic</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rob explains the science and motivations that could produce such a catastrophe and explores the steps that society </span><strong>must start taking today to prevent it</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These measures are concrete, affordable, and scientifically fascinating&mdash;and almost all of them are applicable to future, </span><strong>natural pandemics as well</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. So if we take most of them, the odds of a future Covid-like outbreak would plummet&mdash;a priceless collateral benefit.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>Rob Reid</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a podcaster, author, and tech investor, and was a long-time tech entrepreneur. His </span><a href="https://after-on.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After On podcast</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> features conversations with world-class thinkers, founders, and scientists on topics including synthetic biology, super-AI risk, Fermi&rsquo;s paradox, robotics, archaeology, and lone-wolf terrorism. Science fiction novels that Rob has written for Random House include </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestseller </span><a href="https://amzn.to/32GcIec" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Year Zero</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the AI thriller </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3tLzAVg" target="_blank"