technology

9 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2016 by Elon Musk · across every show →

Everything said about technology, oldest first

Sep 15, 2016
Insight
Musk: Technology naturally declines unless smart people work crazy hard
“It feels like technology just automatically gets better every year, but it actually doesn't. It only gets better if smart people work, work like crazy to make it better. That's how any technology actually gets better, and By itself, technology, if people don't…”
Elon Musk Sep 15, 2016 ▶ 7:00 Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Oct 20, 2017
Insight
Kuo: Non-tech people assume technology can already do everything
“Like any tech person knows, non-tech people think technology can do everything all at once already.”
Michelle Kuo Oct 20, 2017 ▶ 4:15 Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
Oct 20, 2017 neutral
Insight
Kuo: Artists are countering tech acceleration by exploring traditional craft and perception
“I would say that people are interested right now in exploring The flip side of the acceleration of technology and its omnipresence , they're interested in also slowing things down in other kinds of perception or in even countering some of the kinds of media sa…”
Michelle Kuo Oct 20, 2017 ▶ 37:05 Experiments in Art and Technology with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo · Y Combinator
Nov 29, 2017 positive
Insight
Sloan: New technology accumulates alongside old crafts rather than replacing them
“Instead of the new thing replacing the old thing, it all just piles up in this, like, multi-car crash non-violent crash glorious crash, where everything is just kind of like, and the mountain is getting higher and higher and higher, and I don't know, I find th…”
Robin Sloan Nov 29, 2017 ▶ 14:45 Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
Jan 16, 2019 bearish
Opinion
Qi Lu: Education has barely changed in millennia despite technology
“Having said that, also sort of observed education for the past couple of thousand years hasn't really changed that much. Technology hasn't really make a massive, Ah, uplift or transformation yet.”
Qi Lu Jan 16, 2019 ▶ 49:16 Cindy Mi and Qi Lu Share Advice for Entrepreneurs Building Global Companies · Y Combinator
Aug 7, 2019 negative
Insight
Roberts: Universal basic income cannot restore the human dignity lost to automation
“The idea that it's high, but you don't have any dignity, or, you know, we give you a check to replace lost income because you've been displaced, say, by technology, that that's just as good is probably not true. Probably not just as good, even though, I mean, …”
Russ Roberts Aug 7, 2019 ▶ 28:51 EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
Dec 21, 2023 negative
Insight
Caldwell: Daily News Consumption Bombards Audiences With Tech Negativity
“If all you do is read the news every day, You get bombarded with negativity, especially around technology. There's a lot of, the biggest technology stories right now are some version of, like, This is bad. These people are bad.”
Dalton Caldwell Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 1:35 Techno Optimism, Explained · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2026
Insight
Jensen Huang: Starting technology matters less than confronting reality and learning
“And so long as you're able to confront the reality, so long as you are able to learn the technology itself actually doesn't matter.”
Jensen Huang Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 4:30 Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman: Startups will prevent AI power from concentrating in few companies
“In fact, if we are right that AI is going to be such a big change, startups will be much more important to making sure that The power of this technology gets widely distributed throughout the economy and society, and it's not just concentrated in a few compani…”
Sam Altman Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 5:07 Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
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