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Wozniak: Predicting tech trends over two years ahead is nearly impossible
“It's hard to say that you really see the future. More than a year ahead when you're working a year ahead on your projects. Whenever I tried to see the future a year ahead, I knew it one year ahead because I was working on it. If I looked two years ahead and ma…”
Wozniak: People are innately either engineers or inventors, not both
“You don't change it. You don't just say tomorrow I'm going to be an inventor. Today I'm an engineer. You're usually one or the other.”
Wozniak: Memory to store a single song cost nearly $1M initially
“The amount of memory that would hold a song Haas. You know, we were back in the days of tape. It cost about a million dollars, a good fraction of a million dollars.”
Wozniak: The iPhone was conceptually designed as an iPod with phone features
“And then the iPhone was even better. And it was based on the iPod, not the reverse, not a phone. And we'll include an iPod more like it's an iPod, but you get a phone with it.”
Wozniak: Governments are stale in innovation despite having all resources
“Now governments have all the resources, you know, but they're stale in their approaches because of it.”
Wozniak: I do not invest in stocks or cryptocurrency
“I don't invest. I don't even invest in crypto. I don't invest in stocks.”
Wozniak: Privateer will focus on space data, not debris removal
“We're not going to go up and try to gather things, you know, and bring them down. Some people are trying that. We just want to make the information available so people could do it if they want to.”
Wozniak: Privateer will shape international space treaties and communications
“And I expect that, that Privateer will be very involved in communications between different parties, even different countries, and probably, you know, even getting into things like treaties involving space, some kinds of agreements so we can work better and un…”
Wozniak: I funded a sea-launch rocket startup with Apple's Mike Scott
“When Apple went public around 1980 our president, Mike Scott, maybe 81 or two started a little company with some people. I even, I funded into that. He's a friend. And actually we did a launch of a rocket from out at sea from somewhere.”