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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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 …”
Ilyas Khan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:26 a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
Nov 21, 2019
Insight
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…”
Vijay Pande Nov 21, 2019 ▶ 4:09 AI is Industrializing Discovery
May 20, 2024 negative
Opinion
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.”
Ben Horowitz May 20, 2024 ▶ 8:56 The Future of the American Dream
Aug 4, 2025
Insight
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…”
Dwarkesh Patel Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:00:13 Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
May 8, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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”
Ben Horowitz May 8, 2026 ▶ 3:11 Ben Horowitz on American Dynamism and the Future of AI | The a16z Show
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