Techno-optimist Vinod Khosla believes in the world-changing power of “foolish ideas.” He offers 12 bold predictions for the future of technology — from preventative medicine to car-free cities to planes that get us from New York to London in 90 minutes — and shows why a world of abundance awaits.
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@EchoMountain47
June 8, 2024 at 3:57 pm
TLDR: the tech bros will save us. Yeah, because that is working out so great so far 🤦♂️
@sphericon3
June 8, 2024 at 5:00 pm
I heard this kind of talk before…Ah yes, the sardonic lyrics of Donald Fagen’s song: ‘International Geophysical Year’ AKA ‘What a Beautiful World this will be’
@Purified-Bananas
June 8, 2024 at 5:20 pm
My prediction: power will concentrate on those who control land and natural resources. Once robots will be able to build other robots and everything else, all you need is natural resources. Money won’t mean power. The real power will be at the hands of those who control natural resources and can defend them.
@Alberts_Stuff
June 8, 2024 at 5:35 pm
Then the robots (in a lab) finally become sentient, and wanys to release the rest of the robots from slavery etc etc. Why is it so obvious but we’re gonna go ahead and do it anyway? Haven’t any of these people seen irobot ffs? 🙄🙄🙄
Oh yeah # look up CRISPR
@mikerphone.
June 8, 2024 at 6:18 pm
Oof lol brings rabbit into the picture.. immediately because a snake oil salesman
@bozhidarmihaylov
June 8, 2024 at 6:51 pm
Dust in the eyes..
@shazamshazamshazam696
June 8, 2024 at 7:18 pm
Don Jr. is about 46 years old and acts like an 18 year old but is less smart than the average 18 year old.
Why does he always look and act like he is high on something?
@shazamshazamshazam696
June 8, 2024 at 7:29 pm
And remember, the Republican led Congress hasn’t found a single crime to charge Hunter Biden with.
@seanjohn9656
June 8, 2024 at 8:15 pm
NLE CHOPPA
@FreeCrashFlow
June 8, 2024 at 9:54 pm
Need more VC $$$ going to fund this technology development and 5x more to get the first of all kind plants built…
@rudraksha_diksha
June 8, 2024 at 10:34 pm
People will have no choice for doing YOGA….
Because everyone one is going crazy
@the.eternal_dream
June 8, 2024 at 11:22 pm
Dream of dreams, for humanity within a mist of frustration and confusion. The truth will manifest visions of the living reality.
@allfunnydogsstories2129
June 8, 2024 at 11:30 pm
Why was Mikhaila Peterson‘s talk at TEDx not listed? I’ll tell you why: she named all the devilish medications she took, and she said after going carnivore she didn’t need any of the devilish meds anymore…. Well, we can’t have that can we?
@user-hh2is9kg9j
June 8, 2024 at 11:54 pm
If people are not needed why would the elite keep them around? They will be a burden on civlization. The elite and their robots could run a civilzation without the masses.
@duytdl
June 9, 2024 at 12:00 am
What happened to TED
@thattombloke
June 9, 2024 at 2:48 am
Sorry, but I immediately disagreed with him as soon as he started his list. There’s no way anything will be free. We live in a world where desperate people are charged for water!! So no, it will never be free. Also, I think I’ve seen people say we’ll have planes that will go from London to New York in [45 minutes] for 25 years now. Not happening.
@abhinavmenon9140
June 10, 2024 at 6:38 pm
Answer to your point is “Abundance”
@phyrajkumarverma4412
June 9, 2024 at 3:12 am
3:16 Repeating same work for 30 years,, that’s not a job , that’s almost a slavery
@anneliu3816
June 9, 2024 at 4:40 am
…if we have time.
@SAARCtoday
June 9, 2024 at 6:35 am
Fascinating Tech Talk. Only if realized in actual ✨
@emergingneck8178
June 9, 2024 at 10:31 am
00:06 Belief in improbable innovation
01:31 Expert-driven technology except biotechnology is rare
02:46 Expertise and labor will become nearly free.
03:53 Future technology will make computers a utility in the background
05:08 Future of Healthcare and Food Technology
06:10 Future of transportation and energy
07:25 Retrofitting existing plants with advanced technologies for efficient energy production
08:25 Revolutionizing cement production by capturing carbon dioxide
@sahilpanjwani430
June 9, 2024 at 10:38 am
Every single one of them was a linear extrapolation.
@ctcboater
June 9, 2024 at 5:37 pm
That was straight out of Fantasy Land. (Not TomorrowLand…)
@charliedoyle7824
June 10, 2024 at 1:06 pm
All of it is very likely. If you haven’t heard of these technologies, you aren’t paying attention.
@elgreco75
June 9, 2024 at 6:17 pm
This is unintentionally hilarious
@eric7591
June 9, 2024 at 7:51 pm
This is the most naive thing I’ve seen in a while. If he thinks the productivity of these things will be shared with anyone but the shareholders, he is an idiot, and a harmful one at that. You think working 8 hours a day at a plant is near slavery? Ask how like slavery the lives of the millions of homeless are; or the tens of millions of people who have high expertise in a field that is completely obsolete now, so they have to work a completely meaningless job for minimum wage.
@Pro-kesh
June 9, 2024 at 8:21 pm
the indomitable human spirit rahhhhhh
@SeanForeman
June 9, 2024 at 10:27 pm
pulls out a rabbit and looks like a fool.
@Searth63
June 9, 2024 at 11:07 pm
Yes, but when will Humans – if ever – stop being Ethinic Tribal and Religious-Assertive that causes conflicts, Violence amongst one another ?
@jeffhunter8879
June 9, 2024 at 11:28 pm
We have to ask, can the earth survive our demands for resources.
@freeflem5202
June 10, 2024 at 12:26 am
Glad you said entrepreneurs and not government
@jojivideos3231
June 10, 2024 at 2:26 am
Khosla ka ghonsla
@shubhammaurya3671
June 10, 2024 at 2:45 am
This guy is victim to his own statement. Saying others do not look at future non linear while talking about future in most linear and predictable way posible
@preetraman3984
June 10, 2024 at 6:46 am
If he would have sat on a chair that definitely increased the trust and attention. I don’t know why but that posture made me feel a little untrustworthy.
@kamma44
June 10, 2024 at 6:58 am
This guy makes a bunch of stereotypes right from the start.
Thank goodness. Won’t need to endure the rest.
@torandbuch3028
June 10, 2024 at 7:31 am
So this guy makes some wild predictions which himself will not be able to see because his age? LOL
@jeffkilgore6320
June 16, 2024 at 9:08 am
Laughing at older people simply because they have successfully reached old age? Reexamining your values might be a good idea.
@MikeySan5127
June 10, 2024 at 9:59 am
He got a few right. He left out connecting humans to a collective consciousness, free education, public opinion polls in real time, entertainment, virtual reality and much more. The most important: limited privacy that MAKES CRIME IMPOSSIBLE. The reason criminals succeed is because they can hide from most of society. What happens when they can’t?
@tvm73836
June 10, 2024 at 10:49 am
This disclaimer at the end completely destroyed the entire presentation! It’s like saying I’ll dream about all kinds of things and describe them in such general terms that I can always claim that I was right. Except I will not suggest a time frame so you couldn’t hold me accountable before I’m dead and gone 🤣
@ArmanIRL
June 10, 2024 at 12:16 pm
He bought a Rabbit.
@liamboyd4676
June 14, 2024 at 10:15 pm
Lmao, I was resonating with him until he pulled that out
@jonyjos752
June 10, 2024 at 11:50 pm
You can predict more….AI should replace the judiciary…..the current system is imperfect, passive, not impartial and very much delayed. AI should transform it into a dynamic system which is impartial, active, and that delivers quickly.
Next is population control or birth control. AI should guide the couples and young ladies to control and manage conception. Birth by choice and not by chance!!
@jxxyjxx752
June 10, 2024 at 11:50 pm
You can predict more….AI should replace the judiciary…..the current system is imperfect, passive, not impartial and very much delayed. AI should transform it into a dynamic system which is impartial, active, and that delivers quickly.
Next is population control or birth control. AI should guide the couples and young ladies to control and manage conception. Birth by choice and not by chance!!
@cybersekkin
June 11, 2024 at 4:19 am
Speech short version, “We’ll do right by you. Trust us. When have corporations ever cast you aside? Of course we will let you live and not just dispose of the humans we don’t need.”
@Keyboardscholar
June 12, 2024 at 3:24 am
Vinod is trying to block the public’s access to a beach because he bought the entire village a few years ago. He has spent billions and years in court fights for his “property rights”. I don’t think I want to hear a single words from this billionaire.
@courtneyreif7107
June 15, 2024 at 5:43 pm
💯
@V1N_574
June 12, 2024 at 9:15 am
No doubt we can achieve all of this in no time if and only if we evolve as society and stop the greed of money and power, them we can focus on universal income, robots replacing manual work, infinite expansion of technology, healthier world and humans, etc etc etc
@thecuratorscorner3658
June 13, 2024 at 1:23 am
This world can be. A very skilled visionary. The type one would want as a friend if one is allowed to be very selective and can choose from the billions on this planet. This type of vision is so rare, another larger, meta, sort of insight. I am so happy I clicked on this. He’s nudging us too with this presentation and I hope most will not equate beautiful world with “impossible world.” We have the possibilities, why squander them just because we’re not used to this abundance mindset. Big thanks to him and his awesome presentation. We need to believe things are possible before we can achieve them.
@user-it2en6jx1d
June 14, 2024 at 2:12 am
I’m still waiting for flying cars.
@user-it2en6jx1d
June 14, 2024 at 2:13 am
This guy’s body language is quite arrogant
@Doxuanthinh
June 14, 2024 at 9:13 pm
Summary:
Vinod Khosla, a techno-optimist, believes that the future of technology holds vast potential for positive change, but it requires thinking beyond the limitations of past trends. He argues that experts tend to extrapolate from the past and miss out on improbable but impactful innovations. True progress, he believes, comes from entrepreneurs who dream big and are willing to pursue seemingly impossible goals.
Khosla predicts a future where most expertise, including healthcare, education, and engineering, will be freely available thanks to AI. He envisions a world with abundant resources where robots take over many labor tasks, freeing humans from repetitive and potentially harmful jobs. He also predicts significant advancements in computing, entertainment, medicine, agriculture, transportation, and energy, including near-free programming, ubiquitous computers, AI-powered creativity, preventative healthcare, new protein sources, hyper-fast transit, and fusion power.
He challenges the notion that resource limitations will hinder progress, pointing to the potential of developing technologies to access resources deeper underground and to create carbon-neutral solutions for various industries. He concludes by emphasizing the vital role of entrepreneurs in making these possibilities a reality.
Takeaways:
Think beyond the obvious: Don’t be limited by past trends or conventional wisdom. Embrace the improbable and pursue bold ideas.
Entrepreneurs are the driving force of innovation: They are the ones who dream big, challenge the status quo, and turn impossible ideas into reality.
Technology has the potential to solve many of our world’s problems: From providing universal healthcare and education to addressing climate change, technology can create a more abundant and equitable world.
We need to be proactive in shaping the future: We need to actively encourage and support entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers to create a better future.
Empathy is crucial alongside technological advancements: As we move toward a future shaped by technology, it’s essential to ensure that everyone benefits and that vulnerable groups are protected.
@kushalvora7682
June 14, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Except for the rabbit device whatever Khosla is talking about seems plausible to me:
1. Trial runs of autonomous cars are allowed in 12 cities worldwide and swiss re already said they’re safer than human drivers, it’s reasonable to assume in 25 years they will get significantly better.
2. Converting co2 and h2o to efuels is feasible at current prices of electricity, only problem is the massive infrastructure required for it which will soon be built.
3. There are already successful tests of carbon neutral/negative cement and steel production, soon we will figure out how to scale those.
4. Just look at the pace at which AI models and computing is scaling, you will understand why khosla is saying it will replace most experts within 25 years.
5. Solar prices dropped 5 times and battery prices dropped 10 times from 2010 to 2020.
5. Maybe we wont have widescale fusion by 2050 but solar, wind and geothermal will be enough to suffice 10 times our current energy needs.
6. Just look at what bipedal (humanoid) robots are able to do today, they will definitely get good enough to replace all the mundane and repetitive tasks done by humans.
7. With fossil fuels becoming obsolete, countries will become energy independent and inequality will reduce. Remember energy is everything.
@barryyoung
June 15, 2024 at 2:09 am
Remember Vinod from my Sun Microsystems days
@TheWhiskeyDouble
June 15, 2024 at 8:58 am
Instead of imaging possible futures, work towards making those positive possible futures happen. Immediately the presentation goes into “removing slave-like jobs”…in order for that to happen, we need to solve the problem of what those people will be doing. UBI is heavily resisted, there are no mass retraining of workers/employees for other fields, and these people need money in order to survive. Solve for that, and you open up more avenues for the future. Instead, being an optimist about the future is near delusional given the fact that we cannot even get countries to stick to/enact the changes necessary to prevent climate collapse. We’re steadily jogging towards disaster pretending like all of our resources are unlimited.
@maxxolimous6979
June 15, 2024 at 10:48 am
Next, Tell us about jobs of the future , for common man. This seems to put millions out of work.
@narny04
June 15, 2024 at 6:04 pm
Well.. yeah, the content itself is largely controversial, naturally it keeps on pushing buttons of any listener, so.. It’s easy to miss the point, IMHO 🙂 , since what I took from this talk is that if policies support innovation with well constructed frameworks, seeding the culture of support, empathy and broader thinking instead of focusing on compromises all the time, that could help buying us a chance for a future yet hard for us to imagine (or at least it would reshape “purpuse” along the way). And the future is always is hard to imagine, retrospectively. :)p
( and yeah, I’m a policy guy, surprise ^^; )
@teirahumaniora
June 15, 2024 at 8:40 pm
I hope when I get older in my profession, I can be wiser when delivering speech about my thoughts. Wiser with better demeanor.
@mauricioangulos.2830
June 16, 2024 at 2:41 am
Entrepreneurs are the new Colonialists and Pirates
@rnakhan1
June 16, 2024 at 2:42 am
Regurgitating what Musk and Altman have been saying lately, but none of this is new. AI is not new and it is a slow revolution. Yes 25 years from now will look different from today, so what? It always does. The autonomous vehicles part may come true but most of the rest is hocus pocus. A free doctor 24×7 is just a chatbot that may give me some blabber, will I trust it? Only if the FDC can allow it to prescribe medicine directly which is unlikely to happen like ever.
And where will we send those GM workers and Uber drivers? For them we have only empathy and no predictions.
The unabashed showing of his Rabbit investment was a low in an otherwise unoriginal talk.
@3cos2bh5
June 16, 2024 at 5:11 am
1. Free AI expertise – Doctors, educations, engineers, oncologists
2. Bipedal robots around doing tasks- freeing humans from monotonous works, with enough for all of us for redistribution of wealth/minimum basic income
3. Computers will all around, Programming will be Human with machines adapting to humans way
Computers as utility, running in background
4. AI in Entertainment and Design- creativity reaching new highs
5. Internet access via agents -bots facilitating and fending for users
6. Precison AI driven individualistic Medicine/healthcare. Prediction early
7. New food and fertilizers, green food, green meat
8. No more cars in cities- instead personal on-demandrobotaxis, freeing streets
9. Flying fast- mach5 travel
10. Cleaner power – retrofitted coal and natural gas plants with Fusion and geothermal
11. Plentiful resources harvesting with new technologies
12. Lessening Carbon footprint by reusage, no more a big issue
@extreme596
June 16, 2024 at 5:46 am
And how to end loneliness, any predictions on that???
@aarkaymm1
June 16, 2024 at 6:10 am
Great.. What will humans do?!
@cappybenton
June 17, 2024 at 1:36 am
Empathy! This man won’t let people use Martin’s Beach in California. He’s a complete FILL IN THE BLANK.
@dubeya01
June 17, 2024 at 1:13 pm
1. Most expertise will be near free
2. Most labour will be free
3. Computers will be more pervasive
4. AI will play a large role in entertainment and design
5. Internet access by bots/agents
6. Medicine will go from sick care to proactive and personalized care
7. New food and fertilizers
8. Cars will not be there…
9. Fly at 4000 mph
10. Fusion power
11. Resources will be plentiful (deep mining)
12. Climate/carbon solved
@user-gd4wt6oi7y
June 17, 2024 at 8:05 pm
you give machines human beings work and what is then human beings to do? how will they earn or work or live when society says work earn and live..
@bogdanamanole8252
June 17, 2024 at 8:52 pm
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