tech industry

“The tech industry has sort of had one of these central agendas sort of every 15 years or so for the last, you know, probably since the sixties. So mainframes are the center of the tech industry from the sixties through to the seventies, then the PC from the mi…”

“The trouble is, as I mentioned, we've kind of run out of people now. So there's not like another step change to come in that kind of process.”

“I sometimes say that the tech industry has Tourette's and instead of people chatting swear words, they shout like bots or voice or Autonomous cars. Yes. Clubhouse. Clubhouse. Clubhouse. and certainly that's the word of the moment.”

“Never before has more been done across all the different markets, including Europe, Australia, China, USA, to try and limit the power of the tech industry”

“The entire global recorded music industry is what, 16, seventeen billion dollars. Global online advertising is three hundred billion dollars. You know, Apple has, what, a hundred and fifty billion dollars of cash? Like, music is just a rounding error for the t…”

“There's tech being obsessed with what will happen in 10 years. There's what's actually happening now, which is what tech was obsessed by 10 years ago. And then there's everything that's happening in retail and TV and advertising, which is basically like stream…”

“And they're both kind of competing and in some ways parallel visions for the future of large parts of the tech industry in the next 1015, 20 years.”

“And in tech, when people say five to 10 years, that's sort of the edge of science fiction. It's like, yeah, this is really interesting. But we don't know yet.”

“What's happening in tech now, what, so tech today is spending a lot of time thinking about what happens in 2030, and meanwhile, like the retail industry is messed up by stuff that tech was obsessed by in 1995 or 2000, like broadband networks.”

“What the tech industry always wanted to do was to turn TV into YouTube or Spotify. That is to say, or what YouTube or Spotify then became, which is you've got this single universal library of everything, and you pay one fee, that's a reasonable amount of money…”

“The point is, the new thing that looks completely different happens every five or 10 years, not every 50 years, the way it does in other industries.”