Brad Gerstner

The great futurist Ray Kurzweil said, in the 21st century, we're not going to have 100 years of progress.

We're likely to have 20,000 years of progress.

Right.

Right.

You said earlier, we're so fortunate to be living at this moment and contributing to this moment.

I'm not going to ask you to look out 10 or 20 or 30 years because I think it's so challenging.

But when we think about 2030,

Things like robots.

Okay, so I'll grant you license to go out 30.

As you think out over the course of, I like these shorter timeframes because they have to marry bits and atoms.

It's more important.

Bits and atoms, the hard part of building this stuff, right?

Because everybody's saying it's going to happen.

Exactly.

But if we have 20,000 years of progress, reflect on that statement by Ray.

Reflect on exponentials and how all of our listeners, whether you work in government, whether you're in a startup, whether you're running a big company, need to be thinking about the accelerating rate of change, the accelerating rate of growth, and how you will be co-intelligent in this new world.

A lot of people think this just happened overnight.

You've been at this for 35 years.

I remember hearing Larry Page say, probably around 2005 or 2006, that the end state of Google will be when the machine can predict the question before you even ask it and give you the answer without having to look.

Right, I heard Bill Gates say in 2016.