“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller
Computer science gives you far more leverage to change the world than any other study in our age.
Everything is becoming programmable...
Driving ➡️ Tesla Money ➡️ Crypto Genes ➡️ CRISPR Home ➡️ IFTTT Pixels ➡️ DALL-E Sleep ➡️ 8Sleep Mind ➡️ Neuralink
What else?
I flew the other day and saw a guy spend the entire plane ride in an Oculus.
One day, that'll be every person on the plane.
Most people shouldn't be worried about AI stealing their jobs. Small bash scripts maybe, but not AI.
It would cost $60 billion to start a human Mars colony. Our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan have cost over $3.4 trillion.
YEAR -- Price of a Gigabyte 1981 -- $300,000 1987 -- $50,000 1990 -- $10,000 1994 -- $1000 1997 -- $100 2000 -- $10 2004 -- $1 2010 -- $0.10
Apple 2005: 2560×1600 res, 30", $3,000, monitor only. Apple 2012: 2880x1600 res, 15", $2,199—with a computer attached.
It's time for the password to die. Users suck at creating secure passwords. Companies suck at keeping those passwords safe.
It's crazy to me that a college student and a billionaire own basically the same phone and laptop.
For all the inequality in the world, access to tech in the developed world is a remarkably level playing field.