RK: Computers are getting faster. PT: True, but new drugs are coming out slower. RK: True, but computers are getting cheaper. PT: True, but travel is getting slower. RK: True, but the best medical technologies can do more. PT: True, but the price of access to them is ballooning. RK: True, but this can be overcome with sufficiently fast growth in a few critical sectors. PT: True, but it won’t be if the current political and economic environment persists. RK: True, but it won’t persist. PT: Yes it will, unless we do something to reverse it. RK: Yes, and we will. PT: … RK: I think we still have 55 minutes left.
I don’t think they disagree on all that much; they’re just emphasizing different trends.
I mean about acceleration/deceleration of technological change.
That might be one way of putting it.
RK: Computers are getting faster.
PT: True, but new drugs are coming out slower.
RK: True, but computers are getting cheaper.
PT: True, but travel is getting slower.
RK: True, but the best medical technologies can do more.
PT: True, but the price of access to them is ballooning.
RK: True, but this can be overcome with sufficiently fast growth in a few critical sectors.
PT: True, but it won’t be if the current political and economic environment persists.
RK: True, but it won’t persist.
PT: Yes it will, unless we do something to reverse it.
RK: Yes, and we will.
PT: …
RK: I think we still have 55 minutes left.
The next fifty-five minutes would be the most interesting part, though. Can you imagine the small talk between those two?
Yes I can
I wonder what his argument for that would be.