Debugging the Future
A conversation with Tim O’Reilly
Tyler talks with Tim about his book WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, why it’s a dangerous moment in history, the U.S.’s existing “Skynet moment,” measuring the value companies create vs capture, rewriting the rules of the U.S. economy to strengthen shared prosperity, the Long-Term Stock Exchange, key questions he’s asking post-book, and his views on Bitcoin and cryptoassets, the tech backlash, curation, heroines, what we must get better at, and more.
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, which delivers online learning, publishes books, runs events, and urges companies to create more value than they capture. He is the author of WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, and partner at the venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
In 1998, Tim organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform. In 2009, with his “Gov 2.0 Summit,” he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the federal, state, and local level, and around the world. With the Next:Economy Summit and O’Reilly AI Conferences, he has turned his attention to AI’s implications, the on-demand economy, and other tech transforming the nature of work and the future of the business world.
Mentioned:
- Twitter: Tim O’Reilly
- Book: WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
- View: Larry Fink’s 2017 Letter to CEOs
- Book: The Divine Right of Capital
- Project: B Corps
- Book: In the Plex
- Project: Time’s Up
- Project: #MeToo
- Book: The Righteous Mind
- Book: Invisible Hand
- Project: Our World in Data
- Book: The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Book: Enlightenment Now
- Book: Why Nations Fail
- Person: Jennifer Pahlka
- Org: Code for America
- Project: U.S. Digital Service
- Person: Tristan Harris
- Project: Time Well Spent
- Person: Joe Edelman
- Idea: Revolutions happen fast but dawn slowly
- Book: Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
- Book: The Hero’s Journey
- Novel: The Sun Also Rises
- Novel: Green Mars
- Book: Frank Herbert
- Novel: Dune
- Twitter: Tiffani Ashley Bell
- Project: The Human Utility
