Dr. Cal Newport
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That when we finally have the revolution to get over that, it's going to be a massive economic hit.
And AI might play a role in this,
Because maybe AI, once it gets planning capabilities, is going to be able to take the burden of some of this back and forth planning.
I think it's easier to get there with cultural shifts.
I don't think we have to wait to build an email-capable chat GPT to do this.
You could solve this tomorrow.
This is cultural as much as it's tool-based.
But I think it's going to be a huge revolution when we get there, akin to the assembly line.
in manufacturing, which was like a 10X improvement in productivity metrics.
When we figured out the continuous motion assembly line with interchangeable parts was a massive, it created this productivity engine.
I'm using the economic sense of productivity now, dollars per worker.
The economic miracle that came from this process-based industrial innovations in the late 19th, early 20th century, the money generated by that, the wealth generated by that was the foundation of the modern West.
Like the whole world as we know it was built.
So there's these huge latent potentials.
And right now, I don't think we're there with the brain.
And I think it's going to be a huge revolution.
It's just difficult, right?
It's not an easy revolution to start.
But I think it's going to change whole industries in ways that it's going to be hard to even imagine.
Yeah.