Alex Wissner-Gross

Don't convert the solar system to paperclips.

Convert it to computronium, and then we'll run some really economically valuable compute on that.

I do think as we go through this technological singularity, the most productive business plans that I see need to look like science fiction.

I think you can only get so far in an era when day-to-day progress is transformative by or through incrementalism.

And so I think the only business plans that have a good shot at this point at scaling to produce trillion-dollar valuation companies have to look like science fiction.

We're running out of Star Trek technologies to commercialize.

Okay, so we're getting the holodeck, the holodeck from Star Trek where people can walk into a physical space and experience arbitrary realities.

We're getting that in the form of world models.

There are a lot of world model startups out there that enable you to create on-demand simulations of any environment.

We're getting replicators, 3D printers, arguably.

It's in the zeitgeist that 3D printers and 3D food printers in particular, open parens, someone please, I put out a request for startups on this, someone deliver a 3D food printer that I can invest in.

I'd love a good food printer, but we're getting replicators from Star Trek.

We have a number of other technologies.

We're missing the warp drive.

There's no warp drive yet.

And the iPad was also based on Star Trek.

The iPad was litigated based on both Star Trek and 2001 A Space Odyssey in the lawsuit pretty famous at this point, or infamous, if you will, between Samsung and Apple over whether Apple had prior art or not for the iPad.

Samsung cited in part 2001 A Space Odyssey where there were little iPads, and then, as I recall, also Star Trek.

So a tricorder...

com pins badges we have so many of the technologies but we're missing star trek transporters and we're missing warp drive and there are many ways in which arguably i could go on for hours about what's right and wrong with the star trek universe star trek is an energy rich world where we have warp drives and we have antimatter by the way another example of star trek technology just in the past few days cern has done the first magnetically confined transport of antimatter