Vinod Khosla

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(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Khosla Retrieved:2015-8-19.
- Vinod Khosla (Gurmukhi: ਵਿਨੋਦ ਖੋਸਲਾ; born 28 January 1955) is an American businessman listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire. Khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a company which created the Java programming language and Network File System (NFS) after his departure as founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s.

http://www.khoslaventures.com/forbes-the-next-technology-revolution-will-drive-abundance-and-income-disparity
- QUOTE: ... I am not advocating for slowing technological change to preserve jobs but rather worry that the machine learning technology revolution will lead to increasing income disparity, and disparity beyond a certain point will lead to social unrest. I grew up a fan of some inequality (read “incentives to work harder”) but lots of social mobility. ... Let’s not slow down the hand of the market or technological progress but rather realize human labor may be devalued in many instances putting downward pressure on wages of lower-skilled workers and even many higher-skilled workers. These represent just some of the looming challenges as we continue on the path towards technological progress. ...