Nov 17 2021

Ideas Are the New Oil 创意是新的石油

All the new fortunes are created with ideas 所有新财富都是由创意创造的

纳瓦尔：人类有一段征服的历史，为相同的资源而战，但即使在人类历史上，第一批探险家也是商人，他们要外出寻找香料、黄金、丝绸、可种植的新植物、新动物。

Naval:Humans have a history of conquest because we fight for the same exact resources, but even in human history the first explorers were traders. They were going out there to find spices, gold, silk, new plants to domesticate, new animals.

他们出去不一定是为了征服这片土地，最终他们做到了，因为当你被困在地球上时，资源有限。但是，当你拥有离开地球的技术时，有限的资源这个想法就会消失。

They weren’t going out there necessarily to conquer the land. Eventually they did because of the finite resource dilemma when you’re stuck on Earth. But the moment you have the technology to get off of the earth, finite resources go away.

如果你想要资源，那你就去找一颗中子星，或者去找一个恒星系，这样你不会追求一个小星球，那里有无限的开普勒行星，它们将离恒星系更近。

If you want a resource, then you go find aneutron star or you go find a star system. You don’t go after a little planet. There are infinite Kepler planets out there that are going to be much closer to them.

人们想要的是创意和贸易。It’s ideas and trade that people want.

如果你看看现代社会，尽管我知道这不是普世的看法：随着我们变得更加文明，我们变得不那么好战了。原因是你不再为了自然资源而去征服俄罗斯（实际上在2022年2月还是发起了俄乌war）。现在世界上最富有的地方是那些拥有最好想法（创意）的地方。硅谷作为财富创造引擎有一段时间处于领先地位，因为它拥有最好的创意。

If you look at modern society—even though I know this is not the common belief—we’re becoming less warlike as we become more civilized. The reason is that you don’t conquer Russia anymore for its natural resources. The wealthiest places in the world now are the ones that have the best ideas. Silicon Valley was on top for a while as a wealth creation engine because it had the best ideas.

创意是新的财富来源，这一切都是数字化的，所有新的财富都在创意空间中创造。

The new oil is ideas. It’s all digital. All the new fortunes are being created in ideas space.

事实上，在今天，如果你是一个年轻、雄心勃勃的人，你不学习房地产、不学习煤炭和石油开采、不会为了创造财富而开采实物资源。你可以进入创意空间、进入编程、书籍、电影、博客和播客，以及构建机器人，这些大部分是知识产权。

In fact, if you’re starting out today as a young, ambitious person, you don’t learn real estate; you don’t learn coal and oil mining; you don’t go into the extraction of physical resources to create wealth. You go into ideas space. You go into programming, books, movies, blogs and podcasts and building robots, which are mostly intellectual property underneath.

即使作为一个人类文明，我们也正在从征服物质资源转向创意交易。

Even as a human civilization, we’re moving away from conquering physical resources and moving much more into trading of ideas.

对人类来说，不利的情况是，我们太多的大国家和民族认为他们已经实现了最大的想法，现在是时候节约资源了。他们最终摧毁了改进、纠错和创造力的手段，最终停滞不前。

The downside scenario for the human species is that too many of our larger countries and nation-states believe that they’ve achieved maximal ideas and now it’s time to save resources. They end up destroying the means of improvement, error correction and creativity, and they end up stagnating.

然后，你会从一小群小城邦中产生创意，然后它们必须保卫自己免受这些庞大、更具掠夺性、僵化的国家的侵害。

Then you have the idea generation coming out of a much smaller set of city-states, which then have to defend themselves against these massive, more predatory, ossified states.

人们谈论中国是如此令人印象深刻——“看看他们的火箭”，或者“看看他们的GDP”，或者“看看他们建造的城市”。当他们发明新东西时告诉我，当他们想出一些我们没有的不可思议的创意，当他们创造了一些我们没有的技术时，请告诉我。因为到目前为止它们都是模仿的。他们先从我们这里学到的先进技术，他们现在正在追赶上我们。他们只是在更大规模上应用，因为他们有更多的人。

People talk about China being so impressive—“look at their rocket,” or “look at their GDP,” or “look at the city that they built.” Call me when they invent something new. Call me when they come up with some incredible idea that we haven’t had and they built some technology that we haven’t had. Because so far it’s all imitative. It’s them taking advantage of technology they’ve picked up from us that they’re now catching up on. They’re just applying scale to it because they have more people.

当他们每个公民的 GDP 超过我们 时告诉我。当他们做出我们未有的药物、疫苗、航天器、能源发生器或聚变反应堆时，请告诉我。当专制社会自上而下地弄清楚如何建造全新的东西时，当它更有创意时，当他们的艺术更好时，当他们的科学更好时，当他们的技术更好时，请给我打电话。

Call me when their GDP per citizen crosses ours. Call me when they come up with pharmaceuticals or vaccines or spacecraft or energy generators or fusion reactors that we do not know how to build. Call me when the authoritarian society figures out top-down how to build something brand new, when it’s more creative, when their art is better, when their science is better, when their technology is better.

当这种情况发生在民主、自由、资本主义社会时，请告诉我，因为我从未见过这种情况。

Call me when that happens over a democratic, free, capitalist society, because I’ve never seen a case of that, ever.

马丽：创意才是源源不断的财富来源，不要局限于现有的思维和创意下创造出的有限资源上，不要局限于某个国家、区域或地球，多向外、向未知、向前沿去探索、去开拓、去发掘；发现永恒新世界，去建立知识产权，获得更多的资源、创造无尽的财富。有了创意，就有了新的替代石油、煤碳等的资源。创意即资源，创意即财富。创意的温床不一定是自认为拥有最多资源开始收缩使用权限的闭门造车的国家或区域，创意的温床有可能在更多自由、民主的小城镇中萌生，不局限于GDP等现有的衡量指标。当你拥有创意，你有拥有了宇宙的无限资源。

A whole new world

Don't you dare close your eyes

A hundred thousand things to see

Hold your breath - it gets better

I'm like a shooting star I've come so far

I can't go back to where I used to be