phones and don't use phones. And and I think you guys clarified uh he likes uh offline tablets. That's fine. It's the internet that's the the problem, not the physical device. And so I think there's lots of ways to uh cater to the concerns that he correctly expresses, which is uh letting kids go wild on the internet under 16 is is not great. But you don't
just before I went on a trip to Marrakesh with my friends for a birthday trip. And there it was even better because internet was a little shaky but WhatsApp just works, you know? It's like doesn't matter, you have, like, edge, it still works. WhatsApp is just... It's just made really well. So I ended up using it a lot. Um, translate this for me, explain this, find me places. Like, you
But he is, I, with the idea of he's almost infinitely intelligent or can learn almost everything, but has zero wisdom. And so the only thing he knows, and then he's seeing the world through the internet. The most he can do to be in the human world is hack into someone's phone and watch them, but he's stuck, pressed against. He can't actually get into our world. So he's, he can control people's minds arguably, but he can't control the world. And so he wants to be human, he wants to have these human
make an incredibly long story short, I had a very early intuition uh about the internet. Uh and uh the role that it would play in commerce. And as luck would have it, I had a friend who agreed with that proposition, and his name was Jeff Bezos.
that you just haven't done before. And one of the things that's so wonderful about the modern world, you know, everyone's got complaints about the internet and social media and stuff like that, but the good news is it deep it exposes you to so much more than you ever even knew was out there. The key is to actively seek those challenges and seek new things and seek to become
time and I know a lot of people feel like disconnected from the world because of their smartphones or because of the internet. And uh that was something that I was interested in when I was working on the social media piece you mentioned and kind of remains underneath this this new work, but instead of it being like about technology and how technology's
Sure. Uh, I'm going to guess that the majority of people listening to this watching this have never experienced an internet without what I would call the virtuous cycle of search engines and especially Google. Maybe you used AOL or Yahoo in the '90s, but most of your life has been determined by Google sending
that it's created is going to collapse or change. And uh it's unclear like how we're going to exist together um on the internet when that happens. But before we, you know, get into all the implications of that and like whether there's anything that might um that might be gained coming out of it, can you kind of rewind the clock back to what the internet was like before
go? Was this the sort of like the kind of um you know sort of achieving the kind of philosophical aims of the internet in terms of bringing people together or was this sense of like was there a sense of like oh um it's like too difficult to like we're still you know we're not sort of connecting people as easily as we'd like to be. Uh, so I
maybe that is wrong. Like may like maybe we can say almost 30 years later we don't actually need to have the entire internet in one place. And this is something that like I think 10 years ago I would have been a little nervous to say, but a lot of my contemporaries who've been doing this work for the the last 20 years as well are all beginning
uh I started I started the piece with a a a callback to to a piece by uh the internet tech writer Max Read, who wrote in New York magazine back in in 2018 about um what he called the inversion, which is this tipping point where, you know, the bot and fake content, content made synthetically instead of just by,
Okay. Uh post October 7, I very quickly found out that there were numerous advocacy organizations and numerous groups on the internet that were volunteering to do this thing. They they set up a website called Hamas Abby I think on October 14th, 2023. It's incredible. like October 7 happens is is horrifying. Uh the world
Well, let's talk about the the mechanism here. I mean, I for me it it's going to come back to the internet one way or the other, but um in your mind at least how does a society go from skepticism about elites which is good and necessary and
from the more destructive contempt for expertise that, you you obviously internet until you find stuff you already agree with.
It's hilarious. OK. OK. - Internet is that massive computer network, the one that's becoming really big now. - What do you mean?
was invested in by government. Internet, GPS, touchscreen, Siri, and so on. Same thing with health.
financial institutions accountable to make sure that the flow of capital is balanced because the greatest trade deficit in America is the trade deficit between Internet, where were providing local news, weather, sports and traffic deal fence to your ZIP code That does not exist, I said. Not only am I not shutting it down,
It's like internet responsibility. Internet responsibility, yeah. One thing I love about this video, though, I took six screenshots, just my own personal six of them from-- You did? Yeah, because I am so-- We're making t-shirts with these.
But that was then. Internet search and the multi-billion dollar business ecosystems it supported were going to profoundly shift with the help of people like Tunstall-Pedoe, whose company was acquired by Amazon as the foundation for Alexa's question answering.
internet meme recurring first in user-generated creepy pasta, online fiction, and art, and in YouTube videos,
Internetty, thank you. You're going to post things on Faceybooky, watch a YouTubey.
Internet technologies have certainly intensified this development, even though most freelancers remain offline.
Internet is a weird place.
internet isn't there is an appreciation and understanding of the value of implementing it.
Internet makes it possible for people to make use of this enormous distribution engine, virtually anybody with a smartphone.
Internet was new. So this disruption was so huge.
internet activity in China, that China had brought pretty good control, through various techniques, filtering at the border, lots of monitoring inside,
Internet filtering is porous.
internet culture. And anyone who says that political and other kinds of social discussion are repressed in China, it's certainly accurate.
Internet-- it's the other revolution.
Internet. Internet. The opportunity to come to talks like this.
internet to Africans. He was very excited about it.
internet and people can listen to them and it's so low intensity. the phone number is like a dollar a month, you
internet's great yeah it's amazing well so I want to I keep when I when I'm trying to tell people like I'm going to
internet classifying me I want to see what my world wants me to see without being encumbered by all these
internet has completely changed the game there right uh and and and and what's happening now is you know we're starting
internet is really growing as a as a way to meet people but when people uh look to get married they're not just looking
internet okay what's the dream of the internet the dream of the internet is that it is going to sort of diversify
internet might do maybe the opposite of what this book discusses has happened
internet talk about how it like democratizes communication and you can't really argue with them because they said it democratizes communication of course
internet famous or whatever I remember when that phrase was like something a lot of people in the blogging Community like to throw around and wear you know
internet and social media to an entire election decided on on and by the
internet so first of all as crazy as it is like the the internet has won this
internet Jitters all right you're going to be like tweaking just I just want to look at one post just one
internet that's kind of scary as Wikipedia we want to make sure
internet but the what I've noticed especially through the this election
Internet in the 1990s or the 80s people considered it too important to
internet activity rather than a a convergence or emerging as seemed to be the case uh a few years ago so I'll talk
internet is not being used as a tool or a communication tool. is more of a a way of sharing a sense in this case sharing
internet to extend our senses to Mars and then feel that we are there uh and even have our body there without having