IRL415’s Philip Rosedale: “Heading toward software’s Hiroshima moment”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and IRL415, to talk about the Apple’s Vision Pro augmented reality goggles (3:30), digital eyes (6:40), the weight challenge (7:50), on whether there is a key breakthrough that will lead to adoption (11:50), how artificial intelligence and goggles come together, or not (16:10), starting a community lab (19:20), AI girlfriends and matchmakers (22:00), on whether software development is heading toward a “Hiroshima moment” (24:20), why he is optimistic (28:00), and why phones will be the dominant interface for the next decade (30:50).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology. What is it all about?
0:04.5	If you make AIs serve as surrogates that replace humans in intimate relationships,
0:10.0	you are unquestionably moving human beings away from each other in a way that is, I mean,
0:15.0	I think so obviously dangerous. We don't even want to explore it.
0:17.9	If we create AI, boyfriends and girlfriends that pull us away from
0:21.7	each other, that's very dangerous. And we must decide as a society not to do it obviously.
0:47.4	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:52.7	Before we get to today's show, a quick programming note.
0:59.8	After today, we have two more episodes. I repeat two episodes. So that is this week, obviously next week, July 28th and August 4th. Then I'm off the rest of August. I'm
1:07.6	traveling in the UK and Portugal with the fam.
1:15.9	Gonna go catch up with old friends, be a tourist, hang out with the kids, recharge.
1:16.7	It's going to be great.
1:19.3	And then toward the end of that month, they're the right at the start of September.
1:21.1	We will be back in action.
1:23.1	So that is the plan.
1:26.1	I hope you all have some grand vacay plans as well. But before we get there, obviously, we have a bit more work to do.
1:30.7	So, this week, we have a very special guest.
1:36.8	One of our favorites, Philip Rosedale is on the show.
1:39.6	And Philip, for those who don't know, is the man who really popularized this whole metaverse idea before
1:45.4	it was really kind of popularly known as that.
1:48.0	This whole concept of virtual worlds going back 20 years with the founding of Second Life,
1:54.7	which is the OG and still existing very active virtual world.
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