I used to say 10 years ago that this world was optional, that if you don't like it, just turn it off.

It's okay, no problem. You can't take a break from it anymore. It's become the way you educate,

the way you entertain, the way you make money, right, the way you communicate, the way you have a social life.

So we're going to have to adapt these platforms to these human regulations. I used to think it's fine to have all that bad stuff online because

people can just turn it off, but they can't now. Our guest is credited for scaling Google into

the 21st century, taking the company from its Silicon Valley startup routes to a global tech leader.

Eric Schmidt was Google CEO for 10 years, 2001 to 2011.

During that time, the company launched Google Maps, Gmail, Google Chrome, and bought YouTube,

just to name a few of its many milestones.

After serving his CEO, he became executive chairman and then technical advisor for Alphabet

Inc., Google's parent company totaling 19 years at Google,

not to mention nearly 20 years prior leading other tech and software-based companies.

In 2020, Eric left Google for new ventures, notably contributing $1 billion through his philanthropic

organization to fund talented people offering science and technological innovations to the world's

largest and hardest problems.

He also co-authored a book this

year alongside Henry Kissinger and Dan Hutton Locker, The Age of AI and Our Human Future. The three of them

used their diverse careers, Eric writing from his entrepreneurship and technology business expertise,

to inform on the current state of artificial intelligence and to raise essential questions for a world fully integrated with AI.

Eric gives me his thoughts on our not too distant future.

Plus, we discuss Mark Zuckerberg's transforming Facebook

into the Metaverse, whether Google is a monopoly

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