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4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Joel Mokyr · across every show →

Everything said about history, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Mokyr: History offers little guidance for understanding the modern technological age
“I am not really a great believer in the hypothesis that there's an awful lot we can learn from history about our own age, because our own age is so different in so many ways”
Joel Mokyr Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:06 a16z Podcast | Knowledge Builds Technology and Technology Builds Knowledge -- with Joel Mokyr
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Lombard: Events cannot be treated as history until 25 years pass
“There is an idea out there that history really, you can't talk about it as history for about 25 years, that there needs to be some distance.”
Sarah Lombard Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:37 a16z Podcast | The Living Museum
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Dixon: Studying history is the only way to predict the future
“My bias has always been Towards history, for example, like the only way you're ever going to possibly get a lens on how to predict the future is to read a lot of history and understand how these things work because they're such complex systems that you're not …”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:08 a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Dixon: Historical outcomes are more often unexpected than linear
“And the funny thing, at least if you look at history, the weird is often the case, right?”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:10 a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
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