The Long Aponaan Podcast - The Long Bets Podcast

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i'm using the long bets web site, which is part of the long aponaan started by stuart brand and others. And i'm offering bet. No matter what, i'm saying that resources are going to become more affordable. If you think i'm wrong, step on up with long bets. You both put the money up front,. You designate a charity that wil get it at the end, and we'll see what happens. The price of the total portfolio had declined by more than half. That's how confident i am in the one two punch of capitalism and tech progress to take costs out of the system.

In this episode from October 2019, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen and former a16z podcast showrunner Sonal Choksi bring on MIT economist and bestselling author Andrew McAfee to discuss why the lessons of human growth in times past, from the Industrial Revolution onwards, might not apply to our future. It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow — and progress — was through destroying the environment. But is this interplay between human growth vs. environment really a zero-sum game? Even if it were true in history, is it true today? If capitalism is not responsible for environmental degradation, than who or what is? And where does (and doesn’t) technology come in?

The conversation is based on McAfee’s 2019 book More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources -- and What Happens Next, ranging broadly across many areas of growth, from the future of energy and agriculture to the role of capitalism and technology today and tomorrow, from dematerialization to Tesla, Buckminster Fuller, and more.