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Ross: Open societies will dominate tech-driven industries over the next 20 years
“Thinking about the industries of the future, not necessarily looking back at the 20 years of digitization and the rise of the consumer internet, but looking forward to the next 20 years, trying to be deterministic about how political systems map to economic ou…”
Alec Ross Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:45 a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2021
Ross: The world's next trillion-dollar industry will come from genetic code
“You know, the world's last trillion dollar industry was created out of computer code. I think the world's next trillion dollar industry is going to be created out of genetic code.”
Alec Ross Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:51 a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ross: 80% of future tier-one global cities will be outside the US
“And I think that we're moving toward a world where there are between, between let's call it 10 to 15 tier one cities, alpha cities, you know, places, you know, you can think of sort of the San Francisco Bay Area as one of these. You can think of New York City …”
Alec Ross Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:03 a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
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