Future Around & Find Out Choose Your Own Adventure | It's FAFO Friday
Mar 6, 2026
They laugh through a victory lap of predictions that came true and riff on OpenAI's bar‑fly energy. Quantum computing gets a choose‑your‑own‑adventure treatment. Waymo, robot choreography, and debates about humanoid designs come up. Politics, regulation, and the timing of self‑driving cars in New York get hashed out. Plus SXSW plans, moonshot spinoffs, and an AI fact‑checking mishap about Velcro.
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Quantum Could Be The Next Sudden Leap
- Quantum will be a sudden 'chatGPT' style moment that rapidly accelerates capabilities, not just a slow incremental change.
- Dan warns quantum is being viewed narrowly (encryption risk) but could serve as a broad accelerant for AI and unforeseen uses.
Broaden How You Imagine Quantum Uses
- Think of quantum beyond breaking encryption and instead as an accelerant for AI and new applications.
- Kwaku urges imagining future uses rather than only fearing blockchain-breaking cryptography to spot positive opportunities.
De-Extinction Spurs Moonshot Spinouts
- Dan interviewed Beth Shapiro of Colossal about de-extinction and unexpected tech spin-offs from moonshot projects.
- He notes Colossal's dire wolves and how moonshot efforts historically yield unrelated useful inventions like Velcro’s popularization by NASA.