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<p>You are listening to Curiosity Curated. I am Zong.</p><p>We live in an age faced with the dual challenge of technological transformation and the climate crisis. How will AI and the urgent need for sustainable energy reshape our societies and economies? Can we harness these powerful forces to create unprecedented capabilities while averting environmental catastrophe? What will our world look like as we navigate this precarious balance between innovation and ecological limits? These are the grand questions of our time, pushing the boundaries of our imagination and our moral responsibility.</p><p>But to truly grasp the potential of such a transformation, we need perspective. Luckily, such a grand transformation is not our first time. Humanity has undergone shifts so vast and fundamental that they have already utterly reshaped our existence in ways our ancestors could never have imagined. We're talking about changes on a scale previously unknown, propelling us from a largely agrarian pa...