Venture capitalist (Khosla Ventures); co-founder of Sun Microsystems
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“By 2050, it'll be very clear that nobody needs jobs because with enough production of goods and services that are near free, you won't need jobs.”EconomyAI
“By 2030, there will be no such thing as IT services or BPO, they will be gone.”EconomyAI
“One of my predictions is the 2030s will see a faster rate of demise of Fortune 500 companies than we've ever seen”EconomyAI
“almost everybody in the 2030s will have a humanoid robot at home”TechnologyAI
“Within the next five years, any economically valuable job humans can do, AI will be able to do 80% of it”AIEconomy
“I think what I would say is this business of bipedal robots or some equivalent like that in various form factors and configurations will be larger than the auto industry within 20 years.”TechnologyAI
“I estimate that over the next 25 years, possibly 80% of 80% of all jobs, can be done by an AI”AIEconomy
“I'm almost certain, within the next 10-15 years, we can have free doctors for everybody on the planet, or near-free, with the cost of computing”HealthAI
“Within 5 to 6 years, the FDA will approve a primary care app qualified to practice medicine like your primary care physician”HealthAI
“I doubt very much if within 10-15 years … I won’t be able to ask Siri’s great great grandchild (Version 9.0?) for an opinion far more accurate than the one I get today”HealthAI
“I so believe that $1.25 or cheaper cellulosic ethanol is less than three years away”EnergyClimate
“So, my guess is, if we're lucky, we'll have commercial-scale plants in three years. If we're very unlucky, it will be six.”EnergyClimate
“Based on my forecasts, including the considerable upside afforded by technology innovations, biomass based ethanol can replace most of our gasoline needs in twenty years”EnergyClimate