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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khanna: Global infrastructure and supply chains are replacing nation-state borders
“And once every 500 years, we have this kind of systemic transformation in how human society is organized. And so, you know, we're moving from the world of nations and borders to what I call the world of flow and friction in which infrastructure and supply chai…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:06 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Khanna: Tech and telecom firms will spend $4 trillion on infrastructure by 2020
“These telecom and technology and kind of, you know, data industry companies invest about, you know, it's estimated that between now and twenty-twenty, let alone all the trillions that have been spent so far, will spend another four trillion dollars just on the…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:49 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khanna: Younger generations will identify with corporate employers over nation-states
“And this is a particular thing that will expand, you know, with generation Y and millennials and certainly generation Z, you know, with my kids, because they will feel increasingly like they will go wherever the work takes them and they will identify with, you…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:30 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khanna: Portable freelancer insurance and unions are the future of labor
“And then freelancers union, which used to be when I lived in New York five years ago, I was a member of freelancers union. I was getting my health insurance and so forth. Now it's really growing and growing. At a massive rate, and they're looking at portable i…”
Parag Khanna Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:57 a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
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