All-In Podcast/Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on AI's Busi...

Jobs had the best line for computers: 'it's a bicycle for the mind.' Bill had a line which I liked: 'information at your fingertips.' We need now a new concept metaphor for how we use computers in the AI age.

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“Because you need like, if you remember, you know, Jobs had the best line, I would say, for PCs or computers was to say, if you it's a bicycle for the mind.”

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you know, the theory of the mind evolution. Right? Because you need like, if you remember, you know, Jobs had the best line, I would say, for PCs or computers was to say, if you it's a bicycle for the mind. Bill had a line which I liked as well, which was it's information at your fingertips. We kinda need now a new concept metaphor for how we use computers in the AI age. You have one? And the one I like actually came from the CEO of Notion, which I you know, that manager of Incredible product. Yeah. You haven't bought it yet? I've not bought that.

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Nadella frames a fundamental shift in computing metaphors from PC era to AI era, building on iconic quotes from Jobs and Gates. This is quotable, accessible, and positions AI as requiring entirely new mental models.

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Jobs had the best line for computers: 'it's a bicycle for the mind.' Bill had a line which I liked: 'information at your fingertips.' We need now a new concept metaphor for how we use computers in the AI age.

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This is probably the biggest change in knowledge work since PCs. Think about how did work happen pre PCs - a multinational company trying to do a forecast.

The revenue from the SharePoint ecosystem - the consulting community, the implementers - their revenue was something like seven times greater than Microsoft's own software revenue.

You now have that chain of thought, where you can see it work. Now their actions through computer use - that's the state of the copilot today.

I went to the American Embassy in Delhi, and I said, where's the line to give up my green card? And they said, there is no such line. That would be a crazy thing to do in the nineties.

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