Alex Wiltschko

And I'm sure there'll be gloves and skin suits or whatever in the future that actually can play touch back to us.

Who knows, right?

I'm sure some very, very bright, motivated people are going to figure it out because it's like on the road to fully immersive virtual reality.

And then taste.

Man, if you can get smell right, you're going a long way to flavor.

So not what's happening on the tongue, but just the flavor experience.

But beyond how to do that on the tongue, I don't know.

In terms of frontiers, though, what I'm just fascinated with is can we digitize in a way where we can think about it quantitatively?

Can we digitize a story?

Because what I've noticed in doing science and in building companies is that the thing that really binds people together is a story.

So I can't show people the future that we're building.

It's not physically real.

But I can tell a story of what I think is possible, and I can explain why I think now is the time to do it.

The only reality of that...

is a story.

And I think it's incredible that people can choose to believe or disbelieve completely immaterial things, but yet can organize huge numbers of people to do the extraordinary.

And what's very strange to me is we're in this era of LLMs, and I think the magnitude of what we're talking about now is masked by the ability to have a machine create coherent sentences and paragraphs of English language and of other languages.

Yeah.

I have yet to read a story written by one of these machines.

It will happen, I think, right?