"welcome to the a 16z podcast I'm Michael Copeland here on the road in London and that who you heard is from one of our special guests Martha Lane Fox who in the parlance is a crossbench Pierre the fou..."

"thank you also we have Russell Davies who is head of a digital strategy for the coop which is among the world's largest member owned coops you were the former head of strategy for the UK's government ..."

"that has replicated the old establishment to a degree that those of us that were quite early into the dot-com boom and bust here in the UK are properly surprised by because it felt as though things mi..."

"because we could all learn from you guys if you actually pull it off and so I mean are there specifics that we can talk about or there's two areas we're gonna initially focus on and amongst some of th..."

"specifically necessarily about what Martha is talking about and women in tech but there is I think one of the contributions that you get from outside Silicon Valley basically is we don't have the same..."

"regulation government wider society can just be ignored basically I worked with Microsoft for a few years before they got sued by the DOJ right and they sued for antitrust fel recall yes yes and they ..."

"the easy part and and so what is the hard part and how did how do you then you know Martha I want you to describe this too how do you put that together I mean and what what are really the things I nee..."

"nearly twenty percent of the adult population but do they all have smartphones and their progress through no they're not using the Internet they're just either not able to because they're not connecte..."

"people who aren't attuned necessarily to the digital kind of revolution well so this gets me to one of the other topics I wanted to cover you know and I think of England in the UK I think of like you ..."

"so you know I think everything's happening actually I think that's that's the exciting thing about this country is a lots happening there has been a huge in certainly in the last 20 let alone 15 years..."

"know we've we're pretty Swift in in sort of media revolution in those those things digital stuff yeah we you know all that kind of almost the low-hanging fruit of what digital will do to the to the ec..."

"is a really interesting proposition yeah you mentioned that application that tend to sort of seamen feel like they've been developed by people San Francisco for San Franciscans what's a well what's an..."

"it's it's it's and it's within large organizations as well you know your apples and you Google's that there's designers there who are kind of going again thinking about particularly with Internet of T..."

"that in a way that you don't have to be a network administrator to actually just turn on the lights there is a mazing tool place all recently about the combative MIT where you're gonna be followed aro..."

"hasn't happened is is simply that the people at the top of all these organizations don't know how to do it right there they they buy and sometimes repeat the rhetoric of big data etc but they don't ha..."

"profound gaps in data scientists profound gaps in all levels of the the skills chain so that's why I really think it's important we keep banging on about this stuff and we and we explore a lot of our ..."

"and the reason I just used a bit of a device was because as I'm sure you know 3,000 BC they've discovered lots of nomadic tribes across the plains of between Mongolia and through to the cooks and all ..."

"clouds I know yeah I don't know how you that's the biggest challenge for technology industry of the next five uses how do you visualize the cloud makes your PowerPoint really bad you mentioned Univers..."

"me about you know we started up talking about what come how can we manage the blind spots to use Russell's phrase and I think I feel just sort of upset when I think that we're replicating too much of ..."

"good at them they have to investigate some of those other models we can't just replicate the effect of you know decades of Defense funding and Stanford right right and we can't just we must provide a ..."

"impact and that kind of thing I'm just just positing all the possibilities is it is a start you know let me do a very quick I'm gonna run through a couple of themes and we've covered some of them actu..."

"that they really want the difficulty that at least in the United States and I guess plenty of them all over the world have found is that like people sign up but they never completely futurelearn actua..."

"you know and and wearables and talking and those kinds of things feel like interest namely remember having a long discussion about 15 years ago I would really love a microchip in my wrist that just di..."

"what we are going through Parliament right now in the legislative process so I don't know if it's the defining moment for the next five years but it feels pretty important I know that there's CCTV cam..."

"codified into law but but and again with one of the reasons we've surrendered so much privacy is we had a generation of village legislators who didn't understand what they were agreeing to basically w..."

"the planet on board you walk the that's that's the exciting bit and parochially that's the opportunity in the UK is to is to think a bit differently about this kind of stuff and what's the risk if you..."