technological progress

3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Blake Masters · across every show →

Everything said about technological progress, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Masters: Society risks conflating technological progress exclusively with computer innovation
“The more that, that goes we run the risk of just sort of conflating progress with computers and kind of stop, you know, stopping demanding it in all these other, you know, other contexts.”
Blake Masters Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:31 a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One”
Jan 2, 2019
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Chris Dixon: Tech pessimism stems from asymmetry in imagining future jobs
“I think one reason people are pessimistic in general about technological progress is it's, there's an asymmetry in that it's very easy to imagine the jobs that are destroyed and very hard to imagine the ones that are created.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 33:03 a16z Podcast | Not If, But How -- When Technology is Inevitable (with Kevin Kelly)
Sep 27, 2025 negative
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Lazzarin: Tech progress drives declining fertility by inflating parenthood's opportunity cost
“In some sense, like fertility is declining because the opportunity cost of this suffering is massive, right? It's a massive cost. Now it's totally worth it. I know the hackneyed thing you hear from parents, like all the time, like it's horrible. Also, it's gre…”
Eddie Lazzarin Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 36:43 The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
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