Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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And I think if anything, we'll probably see some pretty good stuff as a result of that, notwithstanding that the economic crisis is going to be terrible.
And when a third of the stock market is vaporized because these firms have to finally mark their assets to market and stop pretending that their IOUs are in all their bank accounts at once, we'll probably see
governments around the world do austerity again, which is just going to drive more people into the arms of fascists.
But in terms of the technology, it'll probably be a bit like Web 2.0, where all the stupid bosses left the Bay Area and you could buy the servers they left behind for pennies on the dollar.
And all the workers who had interesting ideas for what to do suddenly didn't have to convince their bosses that these were good ideas.
And, you know, they hired each other and made some interesting stuff.
You know, I was living in San Francisco when the dot-com bubble burst.
And one of the things that I'd always craved during that whole bubble was these very fancy ergonomic chairs from Steelcase called the Leap Chair that were about $1,500 each.
And I remember a day walking through the Mission where I lived and there was a dot-com CEO in front of the office where he just lost his lease selling like a fleet of Steelcase Leap Chairs still in the plastic for $25 a piece.
I bought six of them and used them as a dining room set for the next 10 years, right?
The idea of buying AI now, it's like buying your steel case leap chairs in the spring of 2020 when you can see the fall of 2020 coming at you like a freight train when you're going to be able to buy things for pennies.
Just wait.
If you really feel you need a sovereign AI, just wait and buy it then.
Well, thank you very much.
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