Reid Hoffman
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Because you're making it a benefit to you. This is classically how human societies work and make progress is that we have freedom to make new technologies and we have freedom to make new businesses. We offer them to people as consumers and they have the freedom to adopt them. And that's the normal process stuff. And that's, of course, where the AI revolution is happening as it begins.
That's a whole set of freedoms that enable that.
That's a whole set of freedoms that enable that.
That's a whole set of freedoms that enable that.
There was a huge weaver industry, especially in England. People were like, oh, it's kind of the original small business. What will the orphans do that we have in these...
There was a huge weaver industry, especially in England. People were like, oh, it's kind of the original small business. What will the orphans do that we have in these...
There was a huge weaver industry, especially in England. People were like, oh, it's kind of the original small business. What will the orphans do that we have in these...
That we're not paying or doing anything. And this is where the term Luddite comes from because Ludd was like, this is the destruction of our way of life. This is the destruction of our industry. We need to bomb the power looms. We need to kill the factory owners because this is going to change everything. And it did, of course, because now home weaving is a hobby. Yeah. There's some Etsy in this.
That we're not paying or doing anything. And this is where the term Luddite comes from because Ludd was like, this is the destruction of our way of life. This is the destruction of our industry. We need to bomb the power looms. We need to kill the factory owners because this is going to change everything. And it did, of course, because now home weaving is a hobby. Yeah. There's some Etsy in this.
That we're not paying or doing anything. And this is where the term Luddite comes from because Ludd was like, this is the destruction of our way of life. This is the destruction of our industry. We need to bomb the power looms. We need to kill the factory owners because this is going to change everything. And it did, of course, because now home weaving is a hobby. Yeah. There's some Etsy in this.
There was still some business, but the production of all the clothing that we are all wearing here, none of this is the home weaving. But without embracing that power loom, without embracing that part of the industrial revolution, we don't have a middle class. We don't have clothing that everyone can wear and we can't clothe the world. And new industries are created.
There was still some business, but the production of all the clothing that we are all wearing here, none of this is the home weaving. But without embracing that power loom, without embracing that part of the industrial revolution, we don't have a middle class. We don't have clothing that everyone can wear and we can't clothe the world. And new industries are created.
There was still some business, but the production of all the clothing that we are all wearing here, none of this is the home weaving. But without embracing that power loom, without embracing that part of the industrial revolution, we don't have a middle class. We don't have clothing that everyone can wear and we can't clothe the world. And new industries are created.
And he said, OK, that industry massively transformed. It was suffering and pain for the people in that industry. Part of the reason why there was a rebellion around it. If the Luddites had won, England would have never had an empire. England never would have technologically progressed. It would have been other places that did that.
And he said, OK, that industry massively transformed. It was suffering and pain for the people in that industry. Part of the reason why there was a rebellion around it. If the Luddites had won, England would have never had an empire. England never would have technologically progressed. It would have been other places that did that.
And he said, OK, that industry massively transformed. It was suffering and pain for the people in that industry. Part of the reason why there was a rebellion around it. If the Luddites had won, England would have never had an empire. England never would have technologically progressed. It would have been other places that did that.
Their children, their grandchildren only had a future by embracing the power loom.
Their children, their grandchildren only had a future by embracing the power loom.
Their children, their grandchildren only had a future by embracing the power loom.
All of a sudden, telegram now means that information can transit at super fast speeds, that it's not controlled through the people who control either the printing press or the messages by which the printed messages get there, whether it's government sources. security, or other kinds of things. So we are the current channel distributors of information.