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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Humans evolve on more of a linear slope.
Humans are not that much smarter or that much faster than we were 5,000 years ago, let alone five weeks ago.
And this gap is a gap that terrifies me.
This is the gap.
that if we don't handle it properly, can lead to social unrest, where people don't have what they need, and they're left behind, and they feel that the future doesn't need them at all.
Now, what I see a lot of people trying to do is to figure out some way to decelerate technology.
to use legislation and laws to decelerate the technology so we don't get left behind.
But I have bad news for you.
I spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C.
If you think that Congress can catch a train moving that fast and do something about it, you have never met a U.S.
Senator.
Okay?
They're not exactly lickety-split type people.
So I think the better move is to accelerate humanity.
I think the better move is to accelerate humanity.
And there's a way to do that, but it requires both sides of the tech divide to come back to ancient intelligence, ancestral intelligence,
On the tech side, let me talk to my sisters and brothers in the technology community and offer a prayer and an invitation.
We're gonna have to have a new deal.
between big tech and humanity.
The original New Deal was between government and the people.
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