Technologies
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Friedberg: New tech cuts AI power cost per token by 10,000x
“There are technologies now that are reducing the cost of power per token of output by 10,000 X.”
Hodak: Life-extending tech will force a financial reckoning in healthcare
“As these technologies, ah, really improve, and we are really able to extend life and improve it for many decades, this is gonna be, there's gonna be some kind of reckoning in healthcare.”
Holiday: AI Will Eliminate Average Workers but Boost Elite Leverage and Pay
“These technologies aren't eliminating They're going to be eliminating large chunks of the people who are able to do that thing. But the people who could do that thing at an elite or an excellent level will probably it's leverage will be better at it and be mor…”
Housel: Major world-changing technologies historically take decades to move the needle
“It can, there's so many examples historically of major, major world changing technologies that took years, if not decades before they were really moving the needle.”
Brynjolfsson: Both optimists and pessimists wrongly assume technology acts without human agency
“Both the optimist and the pessimist make the same mistake, and that is that they think of the world as something that gets decided for us. They think that the technology is going to do something to us. The reality is that these technologies are tools. In fact,…”
Birkenstock: Space tech is mature, but space business models remain nascent
“Today is at a point where the technologies are becoming mature, but the businesses are still quite nascent.”