Economist Eli Dourado: "City lights on the moon and living past 130"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Eric Goldman, law professor at Santa Clara University, to talk about what tech regulation will look like under Joe Biden (4:00), Congressional gridlock (7:00), the importance of Section 230 (8:15), social media’s Lehman Brothers moment (10:25), cable news’ central role in disinformation (12:40), what he would do as tech czar (14:05), and the effectiveness of labelling posts (17:05).

THEN: Utah State economist Eli Dourado comes on to talk about the biggest tech innovations of the next decade, like life extension (18:45), being a different kind of economist (24:00), the prize of increasing healthspan (26:10), turning back the clock (27:45), the Apple Watch replacing your doctor (30:15), when electric cars take over (32:20), machine learning enabling super human performance (36:10), why he focuses on innovation (39:50), why the future is in space (41:05), outer space manufacturing (45:50), glasses as the next frontier of computing (50:15), and the 1960’s as the golden age of productivity (53:20).

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0:00.0	Yo!
0:01.0	Technology.
0:02.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	I just think about looking up at the moon at night and seeing like city lights on the moon
0:08.0	and how, like, how inspirational that would be.
0:12.0	It would make me like so proud to be a human.
0:15.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley,
0:26.8	your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:30.8	I am your host, Danny Fordson.
0:33.2	Thank you for tuning in.
0:34.6	It's a big week out here, y'all.
0:36.3	New president, Trump is gone. Wow. It's a big week out here, y'all. New president.
0:38.1	Trump has gone.
0:39.5	Wow.
0:44.0	That was really insane four years.
0:48.7	And as you all know, I'm very happy to see the back of Trump.
0:51.2	And who knows, if impeachment gets through the Senate,
0:54.2	he may be barred from holding office ever again.
0:55.8	We live in hope.
1:05.8	But I got to say that since he was de-platformed, chucked off Twitter, my Twitter feed is just a vastly different experience.
1:13.8	I don't know if any of you feel the same way, but I didn't really realize how much one person, even if they were the President of the United States, could influence the conversations I saw and on occasion
1:18.0	took part in on social media. It's just really quite extraordinary, and I guess I shouldn't
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