Alex Wiltschko

worked at a company called Control Labs, and they digitized grasping.

So they digitized muscular activity.

So they converted the intention to move the hand into a digital signal.

If you saw recently, Meta launched this armband that kind of digitizes your gut.

That's them, right?

So they were bought by Meta.

So it's becoming a product, right?

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.