Mega-disruptive economic phenomena, or ‘catastronomics’, were the topic of a Centre for Risk Studies seminar at the University of Cambridge last month. Large scale cyberattacks and logic bombs were included with other relatively-unlikely-but-high-impact events like flu pandemics, all out wars between China and Japan, large scale bioterrorism, and other general unpleasantness.

So, we’ve got that going for us.

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