<story><title>Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-future-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>The TL;DR of how Zuck wants to build FB&amp;#x27;s future w&amp;#x2F;his quotes:&lt;p&gt;1) &amp;quot;Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2) &amp;quot;The next one is AI. I think that that&amp;#x27;s just going to unlock so much potential in so many different domains.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;3) &amp;quot;[The next computing platform] - I think that&amp;#x27;s going to be virtual reality and augmented reality.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread he lays out a pretty concise vision of what he needs to do to continue the FB&amp;#x27;s juggernaut run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>&lt;i&gt;For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty safe to ignore most of the flack in this thread. Most people vote with their feet (or wallets, or eyeballs, or attention), and they&amp;#x27;ve voted that they love Facebook, regardless of what a minority of people in this thread say or upvote.&lt;p&gt;Nerds have a cantankerous side and are as prone to virtue signalling as any other group. Those of us who read Slashdot ages ago may remember the Microsoft hate it hosted and the way every year was going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. Well, Microsoft is still here; Linux on the desktop is still a minority pursuit; and most people never cared that much about the OS they used.&lt;p&gt;The specific target nerd derision has changed some, but the form of the attack and disdain has not. Any company or country or person&amp;#x27;s haters is proportionate to its size. Look at what people do and how they behave rather than what they say.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/08/mark-zuckerberg-future-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>The TL;DR of how Zuck wants to build FB&amp;#x27;s future w&amp;#x2F;his quotes:&lt;p&gt;1) &amp;quot;Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;2) &amp;quot;The next one is AI. I think that that&amp;#x27;s just going to unlock so much potential in so many different domains.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;3) &amp;quot;[The next computing platform] - I think that&amp;#x27;s going to be virtual reality and augmented reality.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread he lays out a pretty concise vision of what he needs to do to continue the FB&amp;#x27;s juggernaut run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;[The next computing platform] - I think that&amp;#x27;s going to be virtual reality and augmented reality.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have to listen to Zuckerberg on this, because he&amp;#x27;s good at understanding what people will put up with.  I never expected that a sizable portion of the population would walk around looking at smartphones, totally losing situational awareness. Even when not playing Pokemon Go.  But that became socially acceptable.&lt;p&gt;The failure of Google Glassholes seemed to indicate that artificial reality was going to be socially unacceptable. But Zuckerberg might be able to sell it to society.  Microsoft talks about it as an office tool (see their &amp;quot;HoloLens&amp;quot; stuff) but that may be the wrong vision.&lt;p&gt;The right vision may be &amp;quot;Hyperreality&amp;quot;.[1] This is a must-see for anybody thinking about artificial reality. These people are much closer to a realistic vision than Microsoft is. (Watch at 1080p if possible.)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;166807261&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vimeo.com&amp;#x2F;166807261&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>