It's interesting how not even the founders of Google can come to a consensus on what technology is doing to jobs<p>Larry Page thinks most people will be part-time employed or not employed at all since human needs are fixed.<p>Sergey thinks human needs are endless, and jobs creation will always happen.<p>Perhaps no one really knows the answer.
I love that these guys think of 4 years as short term and 20 years as long term. Young companies often set up this dichotomy as a couple months vs. a couple years, which just isn't enough. Long term thinking is a big potential advantage startups have over public incumbents that have quarterly expectations, but it's usually not taken advantage of. Not just on founders obviously, whole startup ecosystem fuels this.
The transcript: <a href="http://www.khoslaventures.com/fireside-chat-with-google-co-founders-larry-page-and-sergey-brin" rel="nofollow">http://www.khoslaventures.com/fireside-chat-with-google-co-f...</a>
"it's amazing when the business people take over how rational they get focused on short term revenue and lose the long term vision"- on why Excite management was having difficulty buying PageRank for $350k (or $1.6m, not entirely clear).<p>I think this is a problem at a number of established tech companies as the management layer evolves.
Here are a bunch of tweets with some highlights. Scroll down to july 3rd<p><a href="https://twitter.com/khoslaventures" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/khoslaventures</a>
Plug: I'm one of the founders of Ginger.io, the healthcare company Larry, Sergey & Vinod mention. We're doing some really interesting things in healthcare and sensor data-- deploying across a varity of healthcare systems and driving interventions, and the best part is having a real impact on people's lives.<p>If you'd like to learn more, shoot us an email at hello@ginger.io or see our Join-Us page.
I personally loved Khosla's company building Talk here:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCoBgC_n1Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCoBgC_n1Q</a>
Khosla is an absolute scumbag.[1] Really disappointed to see Larry and Sergey hanging out with this guy.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/its-privacy-vs-the-people-in-the-battle-for-martins-beach.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/its-privacy-vs-the-peop...</a>