technology

“When technology is fully adopted, it tends to disappear.”

“Another way of thinking about this, I think, is that when technology is fully adopted, it tends to disappear.”

“If you think about the ag industry today, it is completely underserved by technology, let alone analytics.”

“The technology will become pervasive and it will seem odd to our children or our grandchildren that something moves but can't move itself and can't get itself from point A to point B all by itself.”

“So it turns out, at least in the enterprise space, pretty much all of the value of a company comes down to go to market. And this is very non-intuitive to me to begin with, but go to market is at least as important as technology.”

“The truth is that any technology worth adopting is often first adopted by criminals. It turns out criminals are great beta testers of new products and new technologies.”

“Technology changes, but people stay the same.”

“Technology steadily drives down prices in sectors like media and in financial services. But technology is not yet driving down costs, ah, in healthcare and education.”

“The only way to do that is to apply technology. Otherwise we'll let you bankrupt the planet trying to do it with the current techniques.”

“Actually the future is going to be, you know, radically better. Than what we have now, or it's going to be radically worse, and that's going to hinge on the question of whether we can develop new technology.”

“And so the technology fades more and more into the background as an enabler for other experiences that are not about how fast you run this program. Rather, it is about you lift your wrist, and you tap on Uber, and you press yes, and then you drop your wrist. R…”

“It's made it a lot less lucrative for artists in the last five years. I mean, it's made it so, I mean, I'm thrilled that, I mean, I'm grateful that I had 20 years of, like, the, that was the real golden era, you know, for, so I, where you know, I could get 25%…”

“Technology today works best on the mega hit thing, and I think, you know, Empire is a mega hit, and what you just, and Fast and Furious, and the Marvel movies for Disney, it's amazing. Those mega hits, it, it's working. But, It doesn't work for the doubles. Th…”

“You could have the best technology, but if it's not wrapped in a nice user interface that people have fun and, you know, they're comfortable using, it's never gonna get deployed. It's never gonna work.”

“So in a world where technology can move in the same way that capital did before it, to wherever you find the most open, hospitable environment, you're going to expect to see more of that in coming years.”

“And I actually think they're early adopters of technologies and in many ways have kind of a hacker mindset.”

“A more diverse vision of technology will outcompete a white male rich version of technology.”

“The Luddite fallacy is back. The idea that technology destroys jobs is the core fallacy that's been wrong for hundreds of years, and even that's back.”

“I think the most interesting thing I've learned in this is that people in the U.S. Are possibly the most pessimistic people about technology in the world.”

“Climate change cannot be solved by any means except technology, because a political solution is clearly not going to happen.”

“Now, what is true for steam engines is essentially true across the board. Knowledge. Builds technology, and technology builds knowledge, and that synergy between these two sort of different aspects of human knowledge is what drives essentially our modern econo…”

“We're finding that virtually everything we're trying to do in foreign policy is at the intersection of foreign policy and technology.”

“The human capacity for novel products and services is essentially infinite. People will invent new things that they want, and technology will give us efficient ways to create those new products and services that people want, and it's going to unfold in unpredi…”

“Thousands of years, human society have been built on shared fictions and shared illusions, and there is nothing new about that. It's just that with technology, actually our fictions and illusions become more powerful than ever before.”

“Technology is never deterministic. You can build very different kinds of political and social systems with the same kind of technology.”

“Even though technology is making the pie bigger, There's no economic law that everyone's going to benefit from it. It's possible for some people to get left behind.”

“The history of this is very clear, and that the side of the nights and weekends for the last 30 years, that's been the best predictor of the future. That's where I bet, that's how I make my investments, that's where I spend my time. I have this blog post, what…”

“You can kind of think about, in part, beliefs as a substitute technology for the sort of physical technologies that we take for granted in the modern world, many of which, as you point out, historically didn't exist. So naturally, they relied more on beliefs a…”

“There are these giant sectors of the economy in which not only is there no productivity growth, like overall in both healthcare and education, there is no measured growth. There is no measured results in the application of technology in those fields, and in fa…”

“We've got to figure out how to deliver a high-quality education, not decrease the quality in order to just get the cost down, but hold the quality up while reducing the cost, and the only way I know how to do that is by using technology.”

“It's hard to give something away. It's much, much easier to sell it, especially if you want to have impact afterwards.”

“Basically, what's really important today is whether one is going to be a Promethean or an Epimethean. When considering AI and advances in technology, foresight is really important, but we tend to be more like Epimetheus and going for the short-term gates.”

“And they were doing this amazing research that basically was pointing out that how people use technology was very much a social interaction and that people assigned personalities and interacted with technology in ways that were surprising, but in ways that tha…”

“There's always sort of a first order and second order effect of any major new technology, ok? So, what I mean by that is like, the car comes along, and the first order effect is you can drive from point A to point B faster, right? The second order effect took …”

“And of course the answer is technology. And in fact, technology is the only answer to that question. Right. There, there's no other answer. Right. It's not like people got smarter. It's not like people got, you know, I don't know that this, you know, human, hu…”

“The blowback is nominally a response to the dangers of the technology. What the blowback actually is, in, in, in almost every case, what the blowback actually is, it's basically a fear, a statement, an assertion, a realization that the introduction of the new …”

“Technology never actually creates unemployment. Technology only ever creates jobs in that.”

“I'm often deeply frustrated by the way in which I see traditional media cover technology. I, and, you know, the kind of alarmist look for the worst possible outcome and then report it as if it is as if it is you know, fact or at least certain outcome.”

“If you're an adventure guy or woman, and you're trying to get a 10 X, Get the hell out of media. Go to healthcare, or go to energy, or technology places that you're much more likely to get that kind of return.”

“Each new wave of technology has been greeted by lots of anxiety and then sometimes, sometimes anger or rage. But you know, it's all paid off. And not just economically, but it's paid off in terms of its creative potential.”

“This technology is changing the game, and with the advent of Flock, we are going to get to a place at some point where it becomes impossible to commit a crime because technology will help us resolve that.”

“When technology is allowed to work, it's magic. Like prices crash in a way that's just great for consumers and it's equivalent of a giant, basically, you know, when prices drop is equivalent of a raise.”

“These are like some of the rare cases where healthcare is actually ahead of the curve as far as technology goes.”

“The best consumer talent in the world work in technology.”

“I think the reality is that what makes lifestyle and these cultural things, ah, so impactful is behavioral change. And so I think where technology becomes interesting and where we've already seen it become Powerful is to create that technology. What makes tech…”

“People want perfection out of technology rather than comparing it to the human counterpart.”

“Interestingly, there's probably, it probably behooves us to not over rotate on transforming yet internally for any given company, simply because the technology is changing so fast that like you probably wouldn't want to snap the line right now, run your whole …”

“If you disaggregate sectors of the economy over the last 25 years, what you find is basically everything that technology touches basically collapses in price.”

“I cannot think of a single example where, you know, technology was banned and then costs went down. I think that just never happens.”

“If you look at housing and healthcare, as Mena just said, like prices just go up, up, up to the right and any industry that technology has touched has gone down.”

“Real estate has not invested a ton in technology. So it hasn't gotten a lot of the efficiencies that, you know an internet company or, you know, a SaaS company Could achieve.”

“So generally when technology is introduced, you see a surplus and most of that typically goes back to the consumer.”

“I expect, like, I expect some really bad stuff to happen because of the technology, which also has happened with previous technologies.”

“And I think that, so research benefits aside, I'm a big believer that society and technology have to co-evolve. It's, you can't just drop the thing at the end. It doesn't work that way. It is a sort of ongoing back and forth.”

“Cause of the classic classification of human beings is homo sapiens. I actually think we're homo techne because it's that iteration through technology.”

“Look, this is the fastest category of technology in the entire history of the world, right? In terms of growth rate of usage and revenue.”

“Technology in the first instance always, Augmented our costs, never detracted from it, but along, but as we go, as we went from one you know, from one lily pad to another things got better and more efficient”