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January 31 - February 9, 2020
My guess, within ten years, you’ll probably need a special permit to drive a human-operated car.”
This is why people have a tough time saving for retirement or staying on a diet or getting regular prostate exams—the brain believes that the person who would benefit from those difficult choices isn’t the same one making those choices.
So he left a comfortable job as a quantum researcher at IBM, raised over $119 million in funding, and built the coldest pipe in history.
Today, it’s a reinvention of our financial markets. This is a classic example of the deceptive phase.
In 1993, Marc Andreesen designed Mosaic, the first user-friendly interface for the internet (what became the Netscape browser). Before he did, there were twenty-six websites online. A few years later, there were hundreds of thousands; a few years after that, millions. This is the real power of a user-friendly interface—it democratizes technology.
Today, these systems can pick you out of a crowd, read your lips at a distance, and, by examining micro-expressions and other biomarkers, actually know what you’re feeling. Tracking software, meanwhile, is now so dexterous that an AI-piloted drone can follow a human sprinting through a dense forest.
