Alex Wiltschko

I mean, there's no reason to believe it's not possible.

But there's something different between language and a story.

There's a quantum leap between grammatical correctness and something that causes you to dedicate your life to a mission.

And so like somewhere along the line, I received the story of digitizing her sense of smell.

I didn't invent it, right?

Like people have been thinking about this forever, but it completely got me.

I got completely one-shotted by this story.

And now like I live it and breathe it and I'm happy to.

I think that's astounding.

Nobody ever showed me digital smell, but yet I'm working in a tradition that goes back a century or more.

And I never met the people that came up with the story in the first place.

How absolutely extraordinary is it to have a society bound together by such a thing?

It's nothing to do with what we've been talking about, but I'm just astounded by the power of stories sometimes.

The actual experience of a spring morning is not in the data set.

I don't know if we're going to be able to get into that.

Try to tackle that in five minutes.

Here's what I think.

All technology here to date, and I don't think that what we're seeing right now is any different, progresses on an S-shaped curve where it doesn't get better faster really at all.

And then all of a sudden there's something that changes and it gets better really vast.

And then it saturates and it basically plateaus.