Paul Krugman
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467 appearances
13 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Paul Krugman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Network externalities.
Everybody uses Microsoft products because everybody uses Microsoft products.
And the interesting thing about AI is in a way how undisruptive it is.
That it goes, you know, it can be just put on top.
I spend a lot of time turning these things off because I don't want it.
But, you know, Copilot is right there.
And, you know, you're still, after all these years, using them.
Word and Excel, which is the network externalities and the moat.
And then, but it's not some upstart competitor bringing AI to word processing or number crunching.
It's...
It's quite straightforward for Microsoft to actually go right in there and do it itself.
So that might be a difference.
Now, it may be that we're just not thinking big enough and that there's something just radically different we'll break through.
But it is true that right now it's looking as if this is, in terms of market share, kind of less disruptive than some past technologies.
I think there's quite a lot of dislocation coming, although that's not new.
I mean, that has been the case with every major change and in every major
technological revolution, that a lot of jobs are destroyed and a lot of jobs are created.
And in the end, one way or another, there ends up being full employment because that's more or less, you know, mass unemployment due to automation has been, you know, people have been predicting that for a very, very long time and it never happens.
But the transition, a lot of people can find themselves in the wrong job, in the wrong place, sometimes geographically.
I mean, it just, it feels to me like it was just a year or two ago that we were telling people learn to code, and now it turns out that coding is one of those things that AI does, apparently.
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