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TIM O'REILLY - WTF? WHAT'S THE FUTURE?

London Real

Brian Rose

Investing, Cardano, Crypto, Bitcoin, Brianrose, Ethereum, Londonreal, Technology, Cryptocurrency, Business, Defi

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Tim O'Reilly is one of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age. He is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of his own publishing company, O'Reilly Media. As a pertinent voice on the past, present and future of business and technology, he is often referred to as “The Oracle of Silicon Valley”.

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0:00.0

Generosity is a really good strategy for a sustainable economy.

0:07.0

What's the future? It's up to us.

0:12.0

This enormous superpower we have in technology. Do we use it to

0:15.5

make a better world or we just use it to make a few people super rich?

0:19.2

What I really try to do is to describe the present in a way that helps people to see things

0:28.9

that they haven't otherwise noticed.

0:31.2

The bulk of our economy is speculation and that's a recipe for disaster.

0:36.0

We're heading for a financial Armageddon.

0:40.0

Our job in this world is to create more value than we capture. That's what makes the world better.

0:48.0

Our life will end. How much we have accumulated in the bank

0:52.6

is not really going to matter.

0:53.8

The question is, what would we really want to be. So, This week on the show we have Tim O'Reilly and he is known as the Oracle of Silicon Valley.

1:38.0

He's got a new book out called W.T.F. It's not what you think. It means what's the future.

1:43.4

And he's been watching technology companies and commenting on them for the past 30 years.

1:48.9

He was one of the first people to actually have a paid advertising site on the world wide web.

1:54.0

He coined the term open source software.

1:56.5

He's a very smart guy and he believes there's a generosity economy.

2:00.5

And all of the great companies like Google and Amazon were built on the

2:04.3

generosity of earlier technology companies. He's got some mean things to say

2:08.8

about Uber. He thinks they should clean their act up and he really talks about

2:12.3

what we can expect from the future and

2:14.2

how the financial industry just over there is actually going to be one of the first

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