Brad Gerstner
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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.
Right, right.
I heard Bill Gates say in 2016 when somebody said, hasn't all the things been done?
We've had the internet, we've had cloud, we've had mobile, social, et cetera.
He said, we haven't even started.
I said, what do you think?
Why would you say that?
He said, we won't even begin until machines go from being dumb calculators to beginning to think for themselves, to think with us.