1994
Don Tapscott says his 1994 book The Digital Economy was the first big book about the web.
“I don't know if you remember, but in 94, in the digital economy, it was the, I guess, the first big book about the web.”
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2026
Don Tapscott says he planned a speech with himself on one screen and his AI agent 'digital Don' on another to help answer questions.
“I'll be giving a speech in a week where there's going to be me on this one screen and digital Don on the other screen”
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Don Tapscott is CEO of the Tapscott Group and author of the book You to the Power of Two, Redefining Human Potential in the Age of Identic AI.
“is CEO of the Tapscott Group and author of the new book, You to the Power of Two, Redefining Human Potential in the Age of identic AI.”
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Don Tapscott describes the first phase of modern generative AI as AI that could generate content such as text, data and graphics, used as a tool.
“AI has really gone through three phases modern generative AI. The first was gen AI, where AI could generate content with amazing capability text, data, graphics, all kinds of stuff.”
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Don Tapscott says the second phase of AI gave agents the ability to manage tasks and pursue goals without being prompted.
“Then AI went through a second phase where it acquired some agency, where agents could act, and they could manage tasks, they could pursue goals without prompting it with questions or requests.”
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Don Tapscott says he fed about 500 documents of his own writing, speeches and interviews into his personal AI agent, 'digital Don'.
“I've input about 500 documents, everything I could find that I've written, my speeches, my PowerPoints, my, you know, books and articles and interviews and all kinds of stuff like that.”
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Don Tapscott says blockchain produced decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), which often lack traditional management and use tokens as incentives.
“the DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization. In many cases, they're organizations without a traditional management structure, and that use tokens as mechanisms for incentive rather than the traditional command and control.”
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Don Tapscott explains that DAOs run on smart contracts, which are agreements between people made in software.
“these DAOs function on something called a smart contract, which is basically a contract, an agreement between people made in software.”
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Citing Harper Carroll's framing, Don Tapscott says that when an employee leaves, their agent could keep personal patterns and skills but lose the company's proprietary data.
“The agent retains the patterns and skills and the knowledge about the individual, but it loses the proprietary data that's unique to the company.”
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Don Tapscott argues that identic AI must be self-sovereign, owned by individuals and not by technology companies.
“We argue strongly that no, identic AI needs to be self-sovereign. We need to own our own super intelligence.”
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Don Tapscott says building self-sovereign identic AI would require reinventing the AI stack, which he believes is feasible technically, socially and economically.
“that means a modest little undertaking reinventing the AI stack. And we think that that's feasible technically, and it's achievable socially and and economically.”
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Don Tapscott says hearing Joan Osborne's song 'What If God Were One of Us' led him to think about living in a world where humans are not the apex intelligence.
“What if God were one of us? Remember, that was, uh, Joan Osborne.”
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Don Tapscott says that during the internet era people outsourced the storage of information to the web, whereas AI now lets them outsource thinking.
“During the period of the internet, we outsourced storage of information to the web.”
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