Venture investor Michael Thompson sits down with Navy SEAL and intelligence veteran David Rutherford for a forward-looking briefing on the technologies that will define the next decade: electric flying aircraft, small nuclear reactors, autonomous trucking, and the AI build-out underneath all of it. Thompson — an early backer of Joby Aviation and Oklo — breaks down why "the AI trap" is going to hit middle-management and administrative jobs first, why energy is the real linchpin of American power, and why he believes we're living through a once-in-a-century industrial leap he calls the "1870 thesis." David pulls it back to the only question that matters: what does this mean for your family, your work, and the country's edge over China?
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Timestamps:
00:00 — The flying car is finally real
04:00 — Why a helicopter has 48 points of failure
13:00 — "If the physics work, it's just engineering"
27:00 — Where is all the power going to come from?
30:00 — 133 reactors built, then only 2: how America quit
44:00 — "The AI trap" and the coming white-collar job wipeout
50:00 — Why we can't afford to lose the skies to China
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