Garry Tan
👤 Speaker
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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
Tell me about your relationship to machines.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
I guess my ideology is that it does seem like humans came out of the bush.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
The reason why we get to sit here and sit in a beautiful place and talk about ideas instead of
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
subsistence farming someplace is actually technology.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
And it's the personal computer.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
This is sort of the unbroken chain.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
Would you call a book a machine?
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
There was this very influential documentary I saw on PBS called The Machine That Changed the World.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
It's like 1995 WGBH Boston documentary about the personal computer.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
And in it, it talks about that's what the computer is.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Garry Tan
But prehistory is before we can write stuff down.