technology

13 statements across 11 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2021 by Ronnie Lott · across every show →

Everything said about technology, oldest first

Aug 3, 2021 negative
Insight
Ronnie Lott: Relying on Technology Prevents People From Practicing Grit
“When you think about using technology, you don't practice grit. You don't practice a characteristic that allows you to be able to kind of overcome something.”
Ronnie Lott Aug 3, 2021 ▶ 6:59 NFL Legend Ronnie Lott on Grit, Leadership & What America Means to Him · Joe Lonsdale
Aug 18, 2021 positive
Opinion
Ferguson: Technology is key to replacing outdated, dysfunctional US bureaucracy
“I think technology is the way we get away from the 20th century bureaucratic system, which I think has now become a real impediment to the stable functioning of the United States, to something that's much more responsive to citizens' needs.”
Niall Ferguson Aug 18, 2021 ▶ 6:42 Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 26, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Koch: Technology enables personalized education and fast aptitude discovery
“And education, rather than top-down, one-size-fits-all. The technology's there to give everybody the opportunity to discover Their aptitudes, not take 20 years to find them like it did me, but find them quickly, and learn, and be excited about, and want to lea…”
Charles Koch Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 40:03 Charles Koch: How a Love of Philosophy Unlocked Exponential Growth · Joe Lonsdale
Jan 26, 2022 bullish
Disclosure
Koch Industries invested over $30 billion in tech in six years
“So we've been in the last half dozen years or so, we've invested over thirty billion in technology and all these forms.”
Charles Koch Jan 26, 2022 ▶ 36:52 Charles Koch: How a Love of Philosophy Unlocked Exponential Growth · Joe Lonsdale
Jun 15, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Future workers will juggle multiple professions, not just multiple jobs
“I think the future is going to be, we all have not only work at many companies, but we have many different professions, because technology's changing so rapidly.”
Ben Rubinstein Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 33:18 Ep 62: Ben Rubenstein Says Resumes Are Useless; Here's How to Find the Best Salespeople · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 18, 2023 positive
Insight
Andreessen: Capitalists maximize wealth by distributing technology, not hoarding it
“The way that capitalists maximize their wealth is not by hoarding a new technology, it's by selling it to everybody.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 18, 2023 ▶ 34:02 Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 18, 2023 positive
Insight
Andreessen: Technology is the source of practically all economic growth
“Productivity growth is the source of effectively all economic growth. And so therefore technology is the source of practically all economic growth. And that's been the case for hundreds of years.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 18, 2023 ▶ 5:28 Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 8, 2023 positive
Insight
Slat: Climate change is a product of inferior technology
“Climate change, CO two is, is definitely a product of inferior technology. And we, you know, I truly believe that through, you know, innovation and you know, new, better technology, we can Live lives that are even more prosperous than today, while at the same …”
Boyan Slat Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 34:57 Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale
Nov 15, 2023 negative
Opinion
McAfee: Elites signal status by problematizing new technologies
“Especially the more elite you are, the, you know, the fancier, fancier you are, you signal that you're elite and fancy, not by analyzing the amazing new technologies that we have now, but by problematizing them.”
Andrew McAfee Nov 15, 2023 ▶ 4:12 Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale
Dec 13, 2024 negative
Opinion
McCord: Accelerationism confuses tech progress as an end rather than means
“And so it becomes like the ultimate goal is almost the ultimate end of human life is a kind of technological progress, or it's a progress in harnessing energy. I think that completely confuses the means with the ends. I think technology is incredible equipment…”
Brendan McCord Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 24:58 The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
May 19, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Helberg: No technology in human history has caused mass unemployment
“In the history of human civilization, we have never encountered a time when you had a technology that led to mass unemployment.”
Jacob Helberg May 19, 2026 ▶ 17:09 Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Insight
Kolicich: Existing AI models are sufficient to trigger an economic revolution
“Even if we do that, you'll still have a revolution in the economy. You'll still have a revolution in the way things happen because the, Limiting factors now are not the technology, it's diffusion of the technology into the economy.”
Alex Kolicich Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 32:52 Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
Jul 30, 2026 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Levie: Scaling to $100M Revenue in Two Years Is Unprecedented in Software
“Obviously you have companies going from zero to a hundred million or five hundred million in revenue in, you know, one to two years. Like this has never happened before in software. Or kind of technology broadly.”
Aaron Levie Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 2:40 Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
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