Manhattan, every mention
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What jobs are AI jobs?
- ▶ 15:04 Benedict Evans The person's job is to be a button, and that job is automated away to nothing, except in a few apartment buildings in Manhattan where it continues as sort of a, as an amenity.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 33:07 Benedict Evans I have an image of a, um, a U.S. government report on something called automation from 1955, and one of the things that they talk about is electronically controlled elevators, and my apartment building in Manhattan has a manual elevator.
Wondering about generative AI
- ▶ 29:27 Benedict Evans It's so like you could imagine you like mounted a drone on a camera and set it loose in Manhattan for a week to take pictures completely at random.
Lighting and tech diffusion
- ▶ 6:02 Benedict Evans So I walked into an art gallery in, in Chelsea in Manhattan, and they have this sort of 30 foot by 30 foot screen showing a piece of video art, and then in another room they've got kind of a 10 foot by 10 foot screen showing a piece of…
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 31:12 Benedict Evans Even in Manhattan, you know, they will have the, you know, the, they'll fly up and around and show you the neighborhood and everything.
- ▶ 37:00 Benedict Evans Um, and so, um, I mean, I remember going into the Barnes and Noble on, I can't remember which square it is in midtown, downtown Manhattan.
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 16:42 Benedict Evans And of course I haven't, um, cause I spent this morning walking around Manhattan.
There's no such thing as data
- ▶ 34:20 Benedict Evans It strikes me that, you know, and I, and I also talk quite a lot about the challenge of regulation of tech is it's a bit like saying you want to regulate cars because that sounds simple until you realize that, you know, you know, car…
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 24:45 Benedict Evans If you go to Dumbo in Manhattan, there's a street amongst all the 19th century warehouses where there's a good view of the bridge.
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 29:58 Benedict Evans It's not the same as, and you know, the US Department of Transport doesn't set the rates for parking meters in Manhattan, and it doesn't tell you, you know, what to do about teenage boys getting drunk and driving too fast.
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 20:23 Benedict Evans And so the other side of this is a little boutique in Manhattan or London or Paris or Los Angeles or Chicago.