W. Brian Arthur

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by W. Brian Arthur · said 10 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arthur: Asia's digital revolution is only 2-3 years behind Silicon Valley
“What we're now seeing in Asia is that a lot of countries in Asia, including China, their digital revolution is not much more than two to three years behind what's happening in California or in the West.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 56:25 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Arthur: Industries don't adopt AI directly, but recombine its components
“Industry doesn't adopt AI. AI is a slew of technologies. It's a new Lego set. Industry is using its own technologies, and what really happens is that industries The medical industry, the healthcare industry, the aircraft industry, The financial industry , they…”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:17 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Arthur: European and East Coast investors misunderstand tech positioning dynamics
“It certainly is that way in Europe. I'm always amazed and slightly appalled that people think of technology in Europe as something that's done by very big companies. That's pretty good technology, but they don't get that this is a game of Positioning of buildi…”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:27 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Arthur: A long lag occurs between job loss and job creation
“Yes, we will get new jobs, but quite often there's a big lag in between the original happening of hollowed out industries, and then something taking its place.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 52:20 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Arthur: The digital revolution shifts to a new theme every 20 years
“About every 20 years, the digital revolution gets a new theme.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:14 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Arthur: Industries naturally trend toward domination by one or two players
“I think that in the long, long run, things do tend to get dominated by only one or two players, even in the standard businesses. And the reason that's not completely and utterly true all the time is that there are new products getting launched all the time in …”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:44 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Arthur: U.S. economy will reorganize around autonomous intelligence within two decades
“I think what's going to happen in the next decade or two, the story in the US economy is simply going to be that Huge industries are going to reorganize themselves along the lines of autonomous intelligence.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:00:39 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Insight
Arthur: The economy has entered a new distributive era
“So we're now in a new distributive era. What counting is not how much is produced, but who gets what.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 48:58 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Arthur: Paper on increasing returns took six years to get published
“Well, I wrote a paper on this in 1983, sent it to four leading economics journals. Not all at the same time, one after another. I finally got it published six years later, in 1989.”
W. Brian Arthur Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:50 a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
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