Bojan Tunguz
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In general, if an organization needs to do something that uses computation, and that task is too expensive today, it probably won’t be too expensive in a couple of years.
“Peace, however, came at an unprecedented price after Germany conquered France and briefly bestrode Europe. For the United States to maintain a hemispheric military posture could potentially leave Europe to the worst Europeans and Asia to the worst Asians—totalitarian dictatorships harnessing the tools of industrial modernity to achieve armed conquest and subjugation.”
― Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
― Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
“Oddly enough, our views were shaped quite a bit by the example of the thirteenth-century Mongol campaigns of conquest. Genghis Khan’s “hordes” – often smaller than the armies they faced – benefited immeasurably from what we today call near-real-time reporting on the disposition, composition, and movements of the enemy by their corps of “Arrow Riders,” a Pony-Express-like communication system that gave the Khan a consistent winning advantage.”
― Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare
― Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare
“One of the reasons why I’m now without a position, why I’ve been without a position for years, it’s quite simply because I have different ideas from these gentlemen who give positions to individuals who think like them.”
― The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
― The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
“Sophomoric forecasters sometimes make the mistake of assuming that just because something is hard to model they may as well ignore it.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“In two centuries, the human labor to produce a kilogram of American wheat was reduced from 10 minutes to less than two seconds.”
― How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
― How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
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