Mustafa Suleyman
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like if you said to people in 1985, like what would the internet enable?
and a companion, an aid, a coach, a guide, a co-pilot that is going to help you get things done in practice.
Very few people would have predicted mobile phones
with real-time communication, video streaming, a camera and a microphone in your pocket, right?
It will help you create and invent and solve problems and get things done.
And so that is a massive force amplifier.
So for everybody who wants to solve world hunger or invent new energy systems or solve the battery challenge so that we can really unlock the power of renewables,
On the table, almost in every room.
That would have sounded terribly dystopian and scary.
And yet, because of the friction, because it's taken us a couple decades to really figure it out and get it working in practice,
We now are going to have a super intelligent aid at your fingertips that's going to help you work through those problems.
We've created boundaries around these things, right?
We've got security.
We have encryption.
There are privacy standards.
There are real regulators that make meaningful interventions.
And there's public pressure, and there's a reaction, and it steadies the kind of arrival of these technologies in a really healthy and productive way.
And it's kind of mind-blowing.
You're right.
Who would have thought what the iPhone would have done?