Eric Weinstein

That a lot of our problems are mediated by our phones.

That the phone is not an appliance.

It's a brain scrambling device.

And that in general, we're making things out to be much harder.

than they're meant to be.

We have grand challenges.

We have the ability to fall in love, form families, drive each other crazy, and not screw up this whole beautiful experiment.

And my feeling about it is that we've decided somehow that there's something wrong with us.

And I think that we're just making things out to be much more difficult than they are.

There are glorious, wonderful challenges.

There are places to visit that are still remarkably undiscovered.

on Earth.

And we're going to wake up, hopefully, in the next couple of years to the idea that with the machine's help, we can solve all sorts of problems that we thought were intractable.

And so I think the thing that we're not talking enough about is that this is the sprint to the finish.

And it can be glorious, even though it's incredibly dangerous.

And that if we just have a completely different attitude, which is that we are the original badasses,

that changed everything in such a short period of time.

And we get back to being those people who did so much.

Instead of visiting the monuments built by our ancestors, I think we could imagine that unlike this period of stability and safety for the last 80 years, this could be a period of incredible chaos, great peril, lots of fear, but unparalleled fun, excitement, wonder, glory,

We don't even feel comfortable with the word glory.