Industrial Revolution
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ilyas Khan · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Quantum computing will impact society more than the Industrial Revolution
“If the promise that Feynman held forth in the early eighties is even remotely true, then the impact of quantum computing on our lives as we sit around this table will be greater, for example, than that That our forefathers during the industrial revolution had …”
Nov 21, 2019
Pande: Industrialization requires multiple engineerable variables for compound annual gains
“And so the second part, in addition to the ability for the science to be reasonably well borne out, is that it has to be engineerable, that there has to be enough dials, enough tweaks, enough different things that you can work on to modify such that you can ge…”
May 20, 2024 negative
Horowitz: Government Expansion and Regulation Stalled the American Dream
“And interestingly, the Industrial Revolution also Caused the creation of a much, much larger government which in turn then regulated those fields and has kind of stalled out in some ways the American dream in those dimensions.”
Aug 4, 2025
Patel: AI resembles the Industrial Revolution, not nuclear weapons
“I think it's less like the nuclear bomb where there's a self-contained technology that is so obviously relevant to specifically this like offensive capability. And you can say, well, like there's nuclear power as well, but like neither of those three, like nuc…”
May 8, 2026 positive
Horowitz: American global influence stems from winning industrial revolution through tech
“Why does America have the influence it has today from a military standpoint, from an economic standpoint, from a cultural standpoint? It comes back to, well, we won the industrial revolution and we did that because we had superior technology”