Galloway: “You’re about to see the clip economy take over our TVs”

From the transcript, Galloway speaking:

40:33 I think China quite frankly I hate to say it at a certain level has one AI. We just haven’t woken up to that yet. I would agree.

40:39 And then two you’re about to see the clip economy take over our TVs. I think the biggest show on television

40:47 uh from Netflix or someone else is going to be a 60-minute compilation of two and three minute videos similar to what you

40:55 see on reals or Tik Tok. I think that’s about to wash over the traditional streamers you’re going to see.

Some years ago I had the idea of making a feature film entirely out of previews, carefully conceptualized and stitched together. The feature would be organized around an ensemble of, say, a half dozen to ten actors who keep on recurring in the previous in various combinations. The previews would span, say, ten or 20 years of fictional time, with the actors aging over the course of the previews. The whole thing would be constructed so that we can infer what’s going on in their lives from what we see in the previews, even though the previews would be based on a variety of genres: romantic comedies, science fiction, drama, horror, fantasy, period pieces, farce, and so forth.

Kara Swisher Talks Elon Musk, Tim Cook And The 'Non-Capitalist' Behavior Of Tech Leaders

From YouTube page:

Sep 10, 2025

In an interview with Forbes Women, editor Maggie McGrath at the 2025 Forbes Power Women's Summit, legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher gives her unfiltered take on the people and trends shaping the future.

General comments about Silicon Valley start at about 12 minutes or so.

Kara Swisher Hosts Fierce Debate On Future Of AI With Google VP, AI Ethicist

YouTube:

Premiered May 15, 2025

Kara Swisher, Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Shannon Vallor Debate: Does AI Make Us More Or Less Human?

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Noema Magazine brought together renowned AI experts Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Prof. Shannon Vallor to discuss whether AI makes us more or less human in a conversation moderated by journalist Kara Swisher.

The debate went deep into the philosophical ramifications of AI as an emerging transformative technology, as well as our general understanding of intelligence, with a few zingers thrown in for good measure.

Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow, CTO of Technology & Society and founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google.

Vallor is the ​​Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh.

Swisher is a New York Times bestselling author, host of the “On with Kara Swisher” & “Pivot” podcasts and editor-at-large at New York Magazine.

Noema is a longform journalism magazine exploring fresh ideas to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway on creeping authoritarianism [troops in LA]

YouTube:

Jun 10, 2025 Pivot

Kara and Scott discuss the protests in Los Angeles, and dig into Trump's escalating authoritarian tactics. Then, they debate how the Democratic Party should fight back. Plus, Trump threatens Elon Musk with “serious consequences” if he backs Democrats, but is Elon’s behavior on X a sign he’s crawling back? And, Warner Bros. Discovery confirms it’s splitting into two companies, just as Kara and Scott predicted.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
0:39 L.A. Protests/Military Deployed
14:03 What Democrat Will Step Up?
20:19 Trump/Elon Breakup Fallout
29:47 DOGE’s Future
33:26 Warner Bros. Discovery Splits
45:57 Wins and Fails

Is Trump playing games with tariffs to manipulate the markets for financial gain?

YouTube:

Kara and Scott discuss Senator Joni Ernst’s callous comments about Medicaid cuts, Texas’s new law requiring app stores to verify ages, and Taylor Swift’s blockbuster deal to get the rights to her masters. Then, Elon leaves The White House with a literal black eye, and denies a New York Times report about his ketamine use. Plus, Trump raises tariffs yet again, and lashes out at China.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
6:09 Sen. Ernst: “We All Are Going to Die”
14:41 Texas Age Verification Bill
21:29 Taylor Swift Regains Ownership of Masters
24:55 Elon Denies Drug Use
33:55 Trump Axes Elon Ally for NASA Admin
38:26 Trump Doubles Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
43:48 Trump Lashes Out at China
48:19 Wins and Fails

While the whole discussion is worth listening to – except for the opening 6 minutes, which is BS of interest only to Swisher/Galloway fans – I’ve cued it up to the discussion of tariffs at 38:26. We start off with TACO, “Trump Always Chickens Out,” which is widely taken as an index of his incompetence. Starting at about 40:21 Scott Galloway asserts that Trump is using tariffs to deliberately manipulate the markets so that he and his insider buddies can make a “shit-ton” of money.

About King Elon: Kara says "Bullshit!" Scott says "Stop the bleeding!"

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway break down Elon Musk’s latest power moves, and how Democrats are starting to push back. They also dive into how Trump is flooding the zone with his Gaza plan, a proposed sovereign wealth fund, and more. Plus, the latest earnings from Disney, Alphabet, and Spotify.

00:00 Intro Chat
05:17 Elon's Power Grab
13:57 What Can Dems Do?
26:59 Trump's Distraction Trap
32:42 Trump Plans Sovereign Wealth Fund
42:04 Disney, Alphabet, and Spotify Earnings
56:15 Predictions
1:02:31 Prof G Preview

Kara Swisher liked "Don't Look Up" [So did I] [Media Notes 65b]

From the very end her year-end column in The NYTimes, Dec. 30, 2021:

But I digress: The reason I liked the “The Matrix Resurrections” and “Don’t Look Up” is because these are both stories about the limits of big tech, big media and big politics and the importance of heartfelt, real family connections. These are critically important ideas as we move into the next iteration of tech, which will have a lot more to do with virtualizing everything. How we evolve and connect as humans as the world moves to VR is a critical issue. [...]

So, too, Adam McKay’s much-maligned “Don’t Look Up.” If you ask me, you should ignore the critics. Yes, there are some obvious plot points and over-the-top characterizations, but ultimately it’s a story about the gravity of humanity, however doomed it becomes because of its most pernicious members. That includes, particularly, the tech billionaire Peter Isherwell, a part played to geek perfection by Mark Rylance, who has managed to cohesively mash together the worst parts of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Zuckerberg.

Isherwell’s character hits it on the nose with his know-it-all certainty and data-driven lunacy, calling to mind tech’s ruling class, with its proclivity to be frequently wrong but never in doubt. And within the movie is a caution, that we ought not let Big Tech alone govern the world we share. “We really did have everything, didn’t we?” says the feckless astronomer played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie’s last scene.

I feel the same way about the Isherwell character.