12 Predictions for the Future of Technology | Vinod Khosla | TED

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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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  3. About the 4th prediction, I have a amazing idea: with technology breakthrough like deepseek, someone could create an pure AI youtuber(we could also call it AItuber), It can earn money from advertisement in youtube by itself. It can improve it's algorithm by itself. It can even hire human to do something for itself. Just like a real human without physical flesh and blood. Just like Neurosama whthout Vedal.

    If this idea can become reality, I will appreciated.

  5. I mean surely it WOULD lead to great imventions but do the "techno-optimist" think of experts themselves? Who's gonna risk their stability to become The One Fool Who Believed And Done So. It would be great for others? Indeed. But so many "fools" won't achieve anything and impact no progress and won't be able to gain profit of it for their loved ones. So yeah, we lack "fools" because people want to make impact on their loved ones, not The World.

  7. Forget dreaming of humanoid robots and flying cars. When they get built, they won't be for us.

    The real future will be decommercialization, caused by exponential wealth inequality. There will be 2 classes, the asset class and the underclass. For the underclass, technology won't advance much, but we will innovate and repurpose old technology in new ways with software, like how someone today could turn their old PC into a media server. This will become mainstream because we will just ask AI to write software for us, instead of having to learn to code.

    You can almost guarantee that owning anything considered a computer will be insanely expensive and subscription only. Therefore, keep hold of your old computers and mobile devices today, they will be absolutely priceless in the future.

  9. Someone come and do my job. That's enough. The robot must come to work for me at least until lunch. I don't want to wake up at seven anymore. It won't happen as this man says. I don't think it will be like that. It has happened like this before. Everyone was saying that machines would take our jobs. What happened then? Nothing. We still work six days a week. Even if artificial intelligence reaches the final level, we will still work

  13. Vinod Sirwhy do people like you fail first and we feel leftout because failures are only way to success and i dont seeany failure after seeing you i mean courage you give of such a promising purposful future is priceless jow far we work on maling it possible maybe based on political econmical and personal freedom and choices i see that the next new world is purely based on individual choices and very less of liberal views of some superceding or subceeding partys or alliances would prefer wot work in their masses

  17. What makes you an optimist is not the ideas that you propose, it is that you believe people will unite to realize them. Sadly, something will only happen if there are personal incentives for the person, which in most cases are financial

  21. "There is nothing wrong about predictions and all the closes statistics that tell us the future the only reason we need is to think deeply will these predictions will be "VIABLE" in long term that truly help humanity at present and next generation to come and if we never see such grow in these predictions weigh-in then we 'MUST' all prepare the consequences what will happen to all of us it will be so 'CRITICAL' that every change we make will have a calculated 'RISK' attach to all of these predictions."

    "Life is not walk in the park but a movement for those make the actions and things really happen."

    😑😑😑🙏🙏🙏

  29. Don't listen to experts because the experts are the least knowledgeable and don't contribute? Good thing this guy is rich because he isn't very smart. Either that or he's lying to everyone…

    I hope that he loses his money and has to work. It will be rough, but it will be better for him than coming up with these terrible speeches that are full of bad information. He's helping no one. He just wants to get in front of people and have them praise him. He says things that he hopes people will look back to and credit him for. However, if the world were to listen to him, get rid of all the experts and hire "outsiders," then the people who do the actual work will be gone!

  33. We cannot TRUST AGENTS ?????? WHY WOULD WE TRUST THEM IN THE FUTURE?? We need to PERSONALISE simple science each person to expand our personal responsibilities for our possessions and our loved ones . OWN YOUR OWN SCIENCE (as much as you can anyway ) AIM IS "SCIENCE FOR ALL |

  39. As he says, he is an optimist, which means he describes the best of posslble Worlds, and that's ok – but we should also acknowledge that there are many non-trivial questions and problems that are not even mentioned here and they will be crucial. Something that comes to my mind: if this is all for free, where is the profit coming from? entrepeneurs are not philantropists, they build companies that make money; also, what is the society going to look like? I am not an AI catastrophist, quite the opposite, but still I find that the approach "cut off A, B, C and everything will be great" is too simple – there are always effects that we didn't predict. Well, we'll see.

  41. He did not explain that the lost jobs would create chaos in society.
    Mechanical Robots- manufacturing jobs lost
    Autonomous vehicles- Drivers losing jobs worldwide
    LLM agents – tutor, doctor , customer support, Designers, Software Developers, writers and many more.

    There will be bunch of big companies controlling these and benefitting from mass job losses.
    who will feed the rest of the world that remain in question Mr Khosla.

  49. Points 2 & 3 are delusional and tone deaf. Rich people have always been and always will be greedy, won't contribute more taxes, and will destroy millions of jobs, forcing people into penury without assistance. Debt and deprivation is a different kind of slavery that is worse.

    Maybe he should let people use the public beaches behind his house if he's feeling so "empathetic". Actions speak louder than words, pal.

  51. More likely: continued reliance on automated technologies and, importantly, the biased advertisements that fund those systems will free up the human mind, leaving a vacuum to be filled by nonsense. People will become dumber, as is already evident. Far-left and far-right will be even further polarized than they are now, and the extremes for each will be the only choices for world leaders. Each new election will see the opposite party elected in, and each of those terms will work to undo everything by the previous term. The climate will continue to degrade, as party-aligned technologies like coal are pushed by far-right advocates, and pushed even further by lithium mining by the far-left.

    The next world superpower will not be the US, the EU, or China. It will be corporations. Corporations will control nearly every aspect of our lives and will continue to feed us slanted information that further promotes itself. Social media has already shown how easily the human mind can be swayed, after all.

    Techno-optimist or not,
    I’m a humanity-pessimist.

  55. Computers have changed everything now humans no longer think on their own, before computers grocery clerks could add up the bill mentally faster than anyone could with a computer, people are lazy show them anything that will allow them to get lazier and you have a hit all will be sold, social interactions have disappeared mankind is lonelier than ever and soon the thought of marriage will be obsolete you can buy children at the grocery store and robots will become a better companion than any human could ever be. You decide if this is the progress you would consider a better way..

  59. Life without work is no life at all
    I retired 8 years ago
    I feel I died the day I had retired
    After retirement wherever i go for work I see young people needing the work more than I do
    We had enough of technology
    We need a better life based on work, sharing, love and lack of personal, religious, regional and national conflicts.
    We need more of better social, economic and political structures than scientific advancements
    With the technology we have we can a lead a buddist life in villages on minimum needs on a self sustainable basis

  69. 2 minutes in he says: not one key innovation that was not started by entrepreneurs! Maybe we should ask him if he heard about this thing called the Internet? While I can agree with the importance of the role of entrepreneurs, can we keep some measure of nuance?

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