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Our Children Won't Need to Drive—and Chemotherapy Will Look Prehistoric
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Harry asks what Frankel is most excited about in the next 10 years. The answer is deeply personal and wide-ranging: autonomous vehicles — slow, slow, slow, then overnight — will mean the kids of today never need a driver's license. And AI-driven medical compute will produce treatments that make current chemotherapy look prehistoric. He names the friends he's lost to cancer and the conviction that something much better is coming. Harry, who has no driver's license, takes personal delight in the prediction. The two exchange warm closing remarks, reflecting on 11 years of friendship and mutual admiration, before the episode ends with a second full run of the three sponsor reads: Fireworks AI (intelligent model routing), Asana (AI-native workflow for human-agent teams), and Superhuman (AI email assistant).
The driverless car promise that seemed '5 years away' for 20 years is finally tipping. Frankel believes the children of today's founders will never need a driver's license. And with AI accelerating medical compute, treatments like chemotherapy will look as barbaric to future generations as bloodletting looks to us.
