Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]

edit: Folks are getting a bit philosophical so I'll clarify. There are better models to look up to if you want to invent the future: Bret Victor, Elon Musk, Alan Kay, Richard Feynman, etc. Each of those people did invent the future or is currently in the process of actually doing it. Study the great minds, not the great businesses and business practitioners.

Bring us the founders of Google, a company that is orders of magnitude more valuable in revenue, users and more importantly, real technology.

1) "Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet."

2) "The next one is AI. I think that that's just going to unlock so much potential in so many different domains."

3) "[The next computing platform] - I think that's going to be virtual reality and augmented reality."

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's juggernaut run.

Iterating on old ideas. There aren't any new ideas, creativity isn't pulling things from the ether, it's looking at old things in new ways.

Geocities was an iteration on having your own webserver, myspace was the new geocities, facebook was the new myspace, $x is the new facebook ... it's just continuing on and on.

Netflix is the same on-demand video that had been available forever in pay-per-view, etc. but it was just a little bit different and a little bit better and it has destroyed several old business models because of it (cable tv, video rental stores, broadcast tv, etc.)

A car is just a nice horseless carriage which is just a more comfortable way to get around by horse which is just walking with help.

Human being are just complicated ways for strings of nucleic acid to replicate themselves.