Van Jones
speaker
316 appearances
13 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Aug
Van Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When, heaven forbid, it's time for them to be buried.
My children, who I'm looking at right now, might be buried on the moon or on Mars.
Because within 100 years, we're going to be a fully space-faring civilization.
That's a different human civilization.
But I have a question about it.
Will it be human?
And will it be civilized?
Will the world that we are building, will it be human?
And will it be civilized?
Will it be a world of human flourishing where all these technologies are helping people do great things?
Or will it be a world where robots with no hearts dominate human beings with no agencies?
That's my question.
Humanity now has a math problem that we're going to have to come together to solve.
It's what I would call the adaptation gap.
Technology is now...
proceeding on an exponential curve.
Robotics, biotech, AI, quantum computing, space exploration, these technologies are now growing their capability on an exponential curve.
Some of the breakthroughs that would have been the breakthrough of a decade just a few years ago are not even the breakthrough of the day today.
You can't even win a Twitter cycle because by noon something else has come out.
But humans don't develop that quickly.
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