A Bit of Optimism · 2025-09-16 · 67 min · 11,987 words

The Future You Avoid Is Riskier Than the One You Face with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman

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I'm going down that rabbit hole. What science fiction do we need these days, Reed? So The thing that was really magical for me, but for us you know, in the sixties, seventies, eighties, even to some degree the early nineties.

Was A notion that what we're creating with technology, what we're creating as the possible human future. Yep. Can be amazing.

Like this the sense of The world could be much better. For all human beings. Mm-hmm. Not to say without big challenges and navigations and issues, but it could be. And you don't have to be as simplistic as like the Jetsons.

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