Firstly, I enjoyed his talk. It was pretty insightful into the ways so many businesses and corporations today think, and how we've lost track of building the future.
However, there's one thing that really bugged me about his talk. It basically boils down to the fact that you have to take into consideration Moore's Law and have to pay a hefty sum to make any useful invention by paying for the technologies that are 10-15 years ahead of its time to do anything useful for the next 30 years. How does one "invent" in his terms today without the equity that he refers to which you need?
Personally, I think he's way too optimistic about how future tech will be used. And he rarely has good reasons. Stuff like foglets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_fog He didn't invent the idea of the foglet, he just believes for some reason that people won't abuse them. Also in his book he posits that the Singularity will be nice to people who choose not to join it. His only reason is that he's pretty sure the Singularity will like humans.
Yeah, I thought they were only using that internally. Well, there used to be an April Fool's page at elgoog.google which was just a mirror-image of the homepage, but that's gone now.
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