Money Tree Investing Future Technology... How To Invest In The Future
New technology is coming soon and here is how to invest in the future! Inventor and investor Pablos Holman shares his journey from early computer hacking to co-founding Blue Origin, leading a prolific deep-tech lab, and now backing "mad scientists" building hard technologies beyond software. He believes Silicon Valley has over-indexed on easy software gains while neglecting transformative advances in hardware, energy, and real-world systems. He explains how breakthroughs in computation now let us model and simulate the physical world, from disease eradication to supply chains, marking a toolkit upgrade on par with the steam engine, while also wrestling with the social, regulatory, and human challenges that slow progress. We talk AI's real potential beyond chatbots, the urgent need to 10x global energy, decentralization vs. centralization in tech, the societal costs of social media, and even more!
We discuss...
- Pablos Holman described his path from early computer hacking to founding deep-tech ventures like Blue Origin and running a VC fund focused on inventors building real-world, non-software technologies.
- Pablos framed technological progress as periodic "toolkit upgrades," comparing today's advances in computation and simulation to the impact of the steam engine.
- Modern computational models enable simulations of complex systems like disease spread, cities, and supply chains, dramatically improving decision-making.
- The conversation highlighted AI's true value as modeling the world while warning of over-centralization and privacy tradeoffs in the near term.
- Global energy scarcity is the real bottleneck to progress and peace, requiring a massive scale-up in clean, cheap energy.
- Nuclear power is the only viable path to global energy production and described new reactor designs nearing deployment.
- The discussion explored how regulatory and political systems, rather than technology itself, are often the biggest obstacles to innovation, especially in healthcare and energy.
- Pablos criticized social media for societal damage but argued the core issue is human responsibility and misuse rather than the technology itself.
- AI and crypto represent an open experimental phase where individuals can still influence outcomes before power consolidates.
- Pablos encouraged people to actively engage with and help build meaningful technologies instead of passively reacting to technological change.
Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Diana Perkins | Trading With Diana
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