Ray Kurzweil

Let's go to Sarah next.

Keep us moving.

Apologies for the disappointment.

And some of us aren't real.

Yeah, like why are you physically here, right?

Versus just listening online to the podcast that comes out in a few days and so forth.

That sense of community is so fundamentally important.

I think it's more important than ever before.

I'll take a crack at that.

So, you know, there's some connective tissue at a group level that is very, very powerful for human beings.

We absolutely love connecting together in groups.

Look at anybody in a stadium, and they just love being there in this large group, seeing how they juxtapose with everybody else.

That's one whole side of it.

There's also a profound opportunity with technology because if you think about solar energy, vertical farming, satellite internet, you put those together, a small community can be self-sufficient.

You don't need a city, you don't need a country, you don't need a state.

to watch over you in the same way you can be self-sufficient.

In the past, when communities have looked at this, they tend to be isolationist.

They tend to go, OK, we're going to have a kibbutz, we're going to have a commune, we're going to go off the grid and separate from society.

But I think there's an opportunity now, and there's some work being done in our ecosystem around this, to create networked

It's almost like network kibitzes where you learn from each other and you're constantly have testing that human experience in a scaled way across a large group of people.