Reid Hoffman

It's a two-ton death machine. I might die. Someone will run into me.

It's a two-ton death machine. I might die. Someone will run into me.

It's a two-ton death machine. I might die. Someone will run into me.

It's a very natural reflex. Natural reflex does not mean correct. Yeah.

It's a very natural reflex. Natural reflex does not mean correct. Yeah.

It's a very natural reflex. Natural reflex does not mean correct. Yeah.

Wasn't it?

Wasn't it?

Wasn't it?

Okay, then I got it wrong. I didn't know what year it was published until I read it.

Okay, then I got it wrong. I didn't know what year it was published until I read it.

Okay, then I got it wrong. I didn't know what year it was published until I read it.

Oh, that's funny. Right. His inversion of that as part of the prediction of the future was kind of a clever thing.

Oh, that's funny. Right. His inversion of that as part of the prediction of the future was kind of a clever thing.

Oh, that's funny. Right. His inversion of that as part of the prediction of the future was kind of a clever thing.

And it was like these new technologies will be the instruments by which the autocratic governments will exert control over their population, turn all of the people in the population to disagents, disempowered, take their agency away, use the technology to control it, use the technology to fashion the society the way. And this is why we should be fearful of these technologies.

And it was like these new technologies will be the instruments by which the autocratic governments will exert control over their population, turn all of the people in the population to disagents, disempowered, take their agency away, use the technology to control it, use the technology to fashion the society the way. And this is why we should be fearful of these technologies.

And it was like these new technologies will be the instruments by which the autocratic governments will exert control over their population, turn all of the people in the population to disagents, disempowered, take their agency away, use the technology to control it, use the technology to fashion the society the way. And this is why we should be fearful of these technologies.

Yeah, like ignorance is good. Right. And when you look at it and you say, well, what happened with the creation of all of these information technologies and so forth? And the answer is, it's actually a little bit like I'm more a fan of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's more Aldous Huxley, but neither of those dystopias played out.

Yeah, like ignorance is good. Right. And when you look at it and you say, well, what happened with the creation of all of these information technologies and so forth? And the answer is, it's actually a little bit like I'm more a fan of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's more Aldous Huxley, but neither of those dystopias played out.