The Day the Universe Changed

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

The Ezra Klein Show, 16 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 9 min in.

Azeem Azhar recommends The Day the Universe Changed, written by a BBC science journalist in the early 1980s. Azhar read it as a teenager and has just reread it; he says it explores how developing new types of knowledge causes humanity to rethink its role in the world, walking through a thousand-plus years of Western and Asian history to show how unsettling that process is.

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