Middlemarch

Is There an A.I. Bubble? A Debate.

The Ezra Klein Show, 16 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 8 min in.

Paul Kedrosky names Middlemarch as his go-to book for thinking about ordinary people swept along by the winds of change during a major technology revolution. He says it is set just as the Industrial Revolution was taking hold and calls it a tremendous book about that moment.

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