Relaunch: How we started, baby boomers and millennials, the pandemic as catalyst, and the signal to noise ratio
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To mark our arrival on the Premier network, we recap how Matters of Life and Death began and what we hope our intergenerational conversations might achieve. We then reflect on how the pandemic and its acceleration of digital technology has shaped so many of the issues we discuss, before briefly exploring three stories we will cover in future episodes (human enhancement, climate change nihilism, and end of life care).
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Released on 2 Mar 2022
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