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JoeAltmaier on Dec 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Taleb: The future will not be cool

Wait; have you been reading the news? Several epidemics have swept the globe in recent years already. Did somebody wake up, and I missed it?

TeMPOraL on Dec 2, 2012 [–]

I meant serious pandemics like the ones dmpk2k mentioned. Most of the first worlders didn't fear any serious contagion for decades.

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