Techno-optimist Vinod Khosla believes in the world-changing power of “foolish ideas.” He offers 12 bold predictions for the future of technology — from preventative medicine to car-free cities to planes that get us from New York to London in 90 minutes — and shows why a world of abundance awaits.
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Thank you for sharing this! ❤❤❤
Compassion. Right.
I wish that but I'm skeptical
The problem of flying from New York to London in a couple of hours isn't the issue. Getting from the airport to anywhere in town is what burns up all your time.
Don't listen to experts because the experts are the least knowledgeable and don't contribute? Good thing this guy is rich because he isn't very smart. Either that or he's lying to everyone…
I hope that he loses his money and has to work. It will be rough, but it will be better for him than coming up with these terrible speeches that are full of bad information. He's helping no one. He just wants to get in front of people and have them praise him. He says things that he hopes people will look back to and credit him for. However, if the world were to listen to him, get rid of all the experts and hire "outsiders," then the people who do the actual work will be gone!
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What an empathetic guy! First he calls General Motors plant workers slaves
Then says robots will replace them. Then says we will have enough money to look after them by redistributing wealth. ie., Khosla will make the money and make the slaves beggars. Wow the breathtaking vision of these silicon valley types!!! Time to put a 80% tax on his vulture capital profits.
We cannot TRUST AGENTS ?????? WHY WOULD WE TRUST THEM IN THE FUTURE?? We need to PERSONALISE simple science each person to expand our personal responsibilities for our possessions and our loved ones . OWN YOUR OWN SCIENCE (as much as you can anyway ) AIM IS "SCIENCE FOR ALL |
Stupid presentation. Doesn't consider the economics of abundance (lack of incentives). Why work if everything is free and abundant?
If you need look at screen, for you need those words,we all know this.
As he says, he is an optimist, which means he describes the best of posslble Worlds, and that's ok – but we should also acknowledge that there are many non-trivial questions and problems that are not even mentioned here and they will be crucial. Something that comes to my mind: if this is all for free, where is the profit coming from? entrepeneurs are not philantropists, they build companies that make money; also, what is the society going to look like? I am not an AI catastrophist, quite the opposite, but still I find that the approach "cut off A, B, C and everything will be great" is too simple – there are always effects that we didn't predict. Well, we'll see.
He did not explain that the lost jobs would create chaos in society.
Mechanical Robots- manufacturing jobs lost
Autonomous vehicles- Drivers losing jobs worldwide
LLM agents – tutor, doctor , customer support, Designers, Software Developers, writers and many more.
There will be bunch of big companies controlling these and benefitting from mass job losses.
who will feed the rest of the world that remain in question Mr Khosla.
Humans will only be learning in school how to center a div in html and in college they will be taught css for masonary layout.
Is he a khabib? Cuz he puts me into sleep.
Points 2 & 3 are delusional and tone deaf. Rich people have always been and always will be greedy, won't contribute more taxes, and will destroy millions of jobs, forcing people into penury without assistance. Debt and deprivation is a different kind of slavery that is worse.
Maybe he should let people use the public beaches behind his house if he's feeling so "empathetic". Actions speak louder than words, pal.
More likely: continued reliance on automated technologies and, importantly, the biased advertisements that fund those systems will free up the human mind, leaving a vacuum to be filled by nonsense. People will become dumber, as is already evident. Far-left and far-right will be even further polarized than they are now, and the extremes for each will be the only choices for world leaders. Each new election will see the opposite party elected in, and each of those terms will work to undo everything by the previous term. The climate will continue to degrade, as party-aligned technologies like coal are pushed by far-right advocates, and pushed even further by lithium mining by the far-left.
The next world superpower will not be the US, the EU, or China. It will be corporations. Corporations will control nearly every aspect of our lives and will continue to feed us slanted information that further promotes itself. Social media has already shown how easily the human mind can be swayed, after all.
Techno-optimist or not,
I’m a humanity-pessimist.
labour will free? how will they survive?….this will lead to unemployment
Computers have changed everything now humans no longer think on their own, before computers grocery clerks could add up the bill mentally faster than anyone could with a computer, people are lazy show them anything that will allow them to get lazier and you have a hit all will be sold, social interactions have disappeared mankind is lonelier than ever and soon the thought of marriage will be obsolete you can buy children at the grocery store and robots will become a better companion than any human could ever be. You decide if this is the progress you would consider a better way..
Come back here after five years if this still exists.
Life without work is no life at all
I retired 8 years ago
I feel I died the day I had retired
After retirement wherever i go for work I see young people needing the work more than I do
We had enough of technology
We need a better life based on work, sharing, love and lack of personal, religious, regional and national conflicts.
We need more of better social, economic and political structures than scientific advancements
With the technology we have we can a lead a buddist life in villages on minimum needs on a self sustainable basis
Wow ted is no more
India’s Aadhaar is such an example of massive impact that was technically driven by a former entrepreneur but made popular via government.
2 minutes in he says: not one key innovation that was not started by entrepreneurs! Maybe we should ask him if he heard about this thing called the Internet? While I can agree with the importance of the role of entrepreneurs, can we keep some measure of nuance?