The Inevitable

In 2019, Taub served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

Her most recent book, entitled Big Dirty Money, showcases the shocking injustice and unseen cost of white-collar crime, and her monthly column for Washington Monthly takes a pointed look at matters of law and justice.

Taub is a frequent guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe and a strong progressive voice on Twitter.

She joins us today on Mea Culpa as news breaks about Governor Andrew Cuomo's serial sexual harassment of women in and around his administration.

And even, Michael, even the part where you said, you know, he looked good around COVID and he was going on TV every day.

You might know this and remember this.

That was he acts like it was for the public, but he was basically getting his name out there to land a book deal.

He got what is unheard of, a five point one million dollar advance.

It really does.

But today, you and I are taking a deep dive into excerpts from Kevin Kelly's book, The Inevitable, and we are going to track how those dead metal boxes mutated into a living planetary superorganism.

It is a phenomenal transformation to chart out, and, you know, the source material treats this not as some dry list of futuristic gadgets, but really as an epic narrative.

Yeah, like a story of human civilization undergoing a complete metamorphosis.

You wanna fight the current or paddle backward to safety.

But any river guide will tell you that to survive the rapids, you actually have to paddle at least as fast as the water is flowing.

You have to embrace the inevitable.

Exactly.