Meet Thomas Power, Connecting People Since 1998 - Rehan Allahwala Podcast EP 98 Trailer

How important is this connector human being in a society's development? If you're trying to fix, in your case, poverty in Karachi or in Pakistan, it's huge. It's huge because this top-down, control-driven, institutional thinking doesn't work in networks. You can only survive in a network if you're open, random and supportive, ORS. You can't survive. One of the most efficient networks is Twitter, or X as it now is. It's entirely open, it's completely random and if you're not supportive you'll die in there. It's not easy to get that mindset. They don't know how to fix it. They're just throwing things at it hoping it might work. People don't know how to do that. What's happened now is people feel unsafe on dating apps. They feel unsafe on Facebook, unsafe on Twitter, unsafe on Instagram, unsafe on Twitter. They feel unsafe on all of these platforms because they can't verify any of the data. And of course with AI, you don't even know whether any human is posting the data now. Is it all being posted by these AI bots? Am I talking to a bot? Am I talking to a human being? And of course the people running the systems, they just want more traffic to sell to the advertisers, to give more dividends to the shareholders. So the AI is just going to drive the traffic up to make more advertisers to pay more dividends. So it's actually, it's a spiral of chaos. But it's now reaching the point where kids are losing their lives.