internet

also referred to as: the internet

12 statements across 11 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement May 26, 2022 by Gavin Wood · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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May 26, 2022 negative
Insight
Wood: The internet enabled unprecedented consolidation of centralized power
“I think there is a natural tendency towards those in power to consolidate that power. And I think the internet provided a really effective means to consolidate power on a scale not seen before.”
Gavin Wood May 26, 2022 ▶ 6:02 Ethereum Co-Founder Gavin Wood On What Web3 Is Actually Good For
May 9, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Clark: Developers will build and release open-source AI agents
“People are definitely going to build, like, open source agents and release them as well, and we're going to have to contend with that where the environment of the internet will be changed by this in a bunch of hard to predict ways.”
Jack Clark May 9, 2024 ▶ 47:20 Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
May 20, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
220 trillion combinations of variables affect internet streaming quality
“There's 220 trillion different combinations of things that affect you as a consumer when you do anything on the internet. Everything from the device side, software code level, something that's going on with your battery, all the way through to connections thro…”
Keith Zubchevich May 20, 2024 ▶ 10:38 Inside the Tech Powering Your Streaming Obsession — With Conviva CEO Keith Zubchevich
Dec 11, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wang: The internet will split into human-facing and AI agent webs
“We will have to sort of fundamentally reformat how the internet works to be able to support it. And I think that like the you know, we're going to need in some senses, like there will be like two webs. There will be the web that that, that, that humans use whe…”
Alexandr Wang Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 31:59 AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
Dec 26, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Novick: Research shows digital communication fosters disinhibition and cruelty
“Extensive research shows that people are disinhibited on the internet, they are disinhibited in a technological way of communicating, and they are their worst selves, so that people are meaner, they are more cruel”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 32:05 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Apr 23, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Patel: Most AI models lean left due to Bay Area origins
“Most AI models are made in the Bay Area, so they tend to just be left leaning, right? But also the internet in general is a little bit left leaning because it skews younger than older.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 19:44 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Sep 22, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: AI Reached Internet's Five-Year Adoption Rate in Two Years
“Even the rapidly adopted internet took around five years to hit adoption rate that AI has reached in just two years.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 30:13 Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
Oct 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roy: Age-Gating Has Never Worked in the History of the Internet
“I don't age gating in the history of the internet. I don't believe has ever worked.”
Ranjan Roy Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 16:25 Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
Oct 29, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Kelleher: AI Feels Bigger Than the Internet and Cloud Shifts
“It feels bigger than the introduction of the internet. It feels bigger than the shift to cloud. It is, we expect it to fundamentally transform how businesses operate and how humans operate.”
Eric Kelleher Oct 29, 2025 ▶ 14:38 AI Agents: Hype or Hope
Jul 6, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: AI Agents Will Replace Standard Computing Interfaces Within 5-10 Years
“The idea of us using the internet and using our computers in the same way that we are today, 10 years or five years even down the road, It's not gonna happen. I do think that most of it will happen by these, like, smart AIs that just understand everything abou…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 6, 2026 ▶ 11:28 Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
Sep 2, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Prince: Future Web Consumption Will Be Heavily Mediated by AI Interfaces
“And instead of it making the internet worse, I actually think the internet's getting better right now. It's just the interface that we're all going to consume it through is going to be very different. It's going to be much more mediated through some sort of an…”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 5:16 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
Sep 2, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Prince: Defining internet monetization is tech's most important question
“Over the next five years, figuring out what the business model of the next 30 years of the internet, like, that's the most interesting and important question in technology today, by far.”
Matthew Prince Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 9:25 Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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