The History of New Technology

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There's a three stage process to the adoption of any new technology. Stage one is just ignore, right? We're basically just people pretend it doesn't even existo course, that you know, the internet was ignored basically the 19 sixties through to the, lika saidn even into the early nineties. And then he sahe said, stage three are when the name calling begins. So stage three is basically rage. Rage is pecasly te existing power structures. and so there's this prehistory inow sight. Got, what was it; Paris had a telegraph system working through flashes of light through a long glass tubes under th streets of paris. It worked

Sam Harris speaks with Marc Andreessen about the current state of Internet technology and culture. They discuss Marc's background in tech, the birth of the Internet, how advertising became the business model for digital media, the three stages of the Web, the blockchain, how successful technology reorders status and power in society, the Bitcoin white paper, the mystery surrounding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the importance of distributed consensus, Bitcoin as digital gold, how society has performed during Covid, James Burnham and managerial capitalism, the principal-agent problem, negative externalities, risk and regulation, trust in institutions, WTF happened in 1971, regulatory capture, banning Trump and Alex Jones from social media, perverse incentives in philanthropy, and other topics.

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