Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s 2013 novel “Bleeding Edge,” and how its story about the dot-com bubble and 9/11 applies to the present day, with politics and society dominated by AI, technology and venture capitalism firms running wild and the national security apparatus pushing war here, there and everywhere.
Show Notes:
- The other Pynchon pods with Sean Carswell:
- Immigration, race and ‘One Battle After Another’
- What to watch from Trump’s national AI standard
- Trump touts push to contain AI energy costs
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