Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy with Palmer Luckey

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Starting in the 1960s, technology companies, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, were essential for creating the processors that would eventually launch satellites and guide missiles. Half a century later, today’s tech companies can — and need — to move even faster and smarter, as international adversaries scale up their aggressions. In this episode, Anduril Industries Founder Palmer Luckey will discuss how Silicon Valley is using new technologies to build new tools, systems, and companies to defend our nation and its interests.

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0:00.0	You can't credibly deter war without superior technology and this has happened over and over not just in the United States and not even in modern history but going all the way back into ancient history.
0:13.8	Back in November, A16C held our American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C.
0:18.0	and today we're sharing the very first session from that summit,
0:21.4	which even half a year later, may be more relevant than ever.
0:24.8	Now you might recognize their speaker Palmer Lucky for co-founding Oculus, but he's also the
0:28.9	founder of a 16C portfolio company Andrel. And in this Jampac Talk, Palmer brings us back to the 50s, a golden age of defense innovation.
0:37.0	An era that helped us turn futuristic dreams into household staples, from personal computing to GPS to commercial air travel.
0:44.1	But what happened in the 1960s and beyond?
0:47.0	Why is it the case that today you have better computer vision in your Snapchat app than the
0:50.9	systems the DoD is fielding.
0:53.0	Listen in to your Palmer's take on what incentives have stifled the defense industry,
0:57.0	what the battlefield of the future might look like,
0:59.0	and ultimately what Andrel is doing to reboot the Arsenal of Democracy. And if you like the
1:03.4	you like the session, you can find the full library of recordings from the summit
1:07.1	by going to a 16c.com slash a d dash summit.
1:11.8	As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only.
1:15.0	Should not be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security
1:21.0	and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any
1:24.3	A16Z fund. For more details please see A16Z.com slash disclosures. When I was young I imagined like many people do that there was probably some secret
1:47.1	government silo of advanced technology that nobody had ever heard of that was
1:50.6	going to save us if war ever broke out something that was beyond what we ever could have imagined.
1:55.0	And this is not a thing that I had come up with on my own. I think a lot of Americans believe it. I think that a lot of our media also depicts this as something that is the case.
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