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This is going to be a really fun read in ten years when none of it comes true. And I really mean none — it’s like he tried specifically to make sure that not a single of his predictions is a serious idea.

Is this a red herring play to his VC friends (enemies) to have them look thatta way while he invests in good ideas?

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I’ve often wondered if the cult of personality VCs, with a16z topping that list, have become so cultish that their own employees can’t tell up from down anymore, which seems like it’d be a huge handicap when it comes to making thoughtful investment decisions e.g. fooled by your own bs sort of thing

Some of these ideas are not too far-fetched. Lab “grown” meat, for example, isn’t too far from becoming a commercially viable product.

But will likely take at least a generation for consumer behavior to significantly change

But isn’t that the irony that we’ve been reading news stories about lab grown meat for 20 years, while the real breakthrough product (Beyond Meat) is basically a souped up veggie patty?

I feel that when we assume technology as the root of progress, we reverse engineer the past and future to seem causally linked to it

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