Garry Tan

And it's lost, it's lost to the sands of time.

Like we have no understanding of how people lived and what people did and what they cared about until we invented papyrus and writing and the book.

And then it accelerated with movable type, accelerated with Gutenberg.

And so literacy went from like a tiny priesthood to suddenly everyone could do it.

And that's the thing that recurs every single moment.

That's what the personal computer was.

And then that's what the iPhone and the mobile revolution.

We didn't get to talk about that yet.

It's like social media happened.

And what's funny is Facebook almost died because it almost missed mobile.

Instagram happened and Facebook had to buy Instagram because Instagram would have killed Facebook.

Facebook was a desktop application originally.

Yeah.

Yeah, it looked like bank software, you know?

Yeah.

And Kevin Systrom could have been Zuckerberg, but he sold too early, which is kind of crazy.

That's sort of the history repeating itself.

The internet computer, it's the paperback computer, suddenly the internet connected computer, suddenly the iPhone, and then now AI, like the intelligent computer.

It's accelerating, it's happening faster and faster.

And I think that that's awesome.