The primary threat to the 21st century is the creation of new forms of totalitarianism driven by the false belief that only an all-seeing state can prevent disasters.

“one of the key arguments in the book Doom is that actually totalitarianism is the thing most to be feared in the 20th century totalitarian regimes cause way more premature death than anything else and so the last thing we should want to do in the 21st century is to create new forms of totalitarianis”