D. Scott Phoenix

At a thousand connections, you can restore movement.

At 10,000, speech.

At a million connections, you stop restoring what was lost and you start adding what was never there.

Imagine learning a language in an afternoon, a new skill overnight, maybe even sharing a memory with a friend and having it feel just as real to them as it felt to you.

The thing about this future is it doesn't require new technology.

It just requires more of the same technology.

Someone you work with will get it first, and you'll hold out for a while, the way you did with a smartphone, but eventually, you won't.

The advantages of integration will be hard to compete with.

Think about what we even do when we use a computer today.

You move a picture of an arrow around until it touches a picture of a folder.

Inside, there are pictures of files.

You click, you scroll, you drag.

Sending a file to a colleague takes a whole minute.

Two of those seconds were the decision.

The rest of it is the equivalent of walking across your house to flip a light switch.

With a system that can hear our thoughts, you skip the walk.

The further this goes, the more deeply we integrate with AI, the harder it will be to tell where our thoughts end and AI begins.

For example, what's the square root of 117 trillion?

Go ahead, I'll wait.

If you tried to answer that, you felt something, you felt a gap, a pause between the question arriving and anything starting to form.