Steven Kotler

Sure.

God, there's so many.

What I really sort of want to know, like, I remember our very first conversation, and you said, I asked you, you know, how do you think of yourself?

And you told me you think of yourself more as an artist and a creative than you did as a technologist and an inventor.

It was the first thing you took apart.

You predicted a bunch of stuff that were not technological, so you couldn't use curves.

So you predicted the fall of the Soviet Union.

Where did that come from if you weren't tracking exponential curves?

I was just curious on a personal level, you spent the first half of your life sort of running your own show and you just spent the past couple of decades, since we've known each other a decade, working inside a big company.

How has that changed you?

Was it fun?

With the passing of Craig Venter, I'm in the biotechnology space.

Yeah.

Yes, please.

Philip Brown from Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

A comment and then a science fiction question.

You talked earlier about how fast this is changing, but how few people know about how fast it's changing.

And I talked this morning about what I call human friction, the resistance to change.

And I'll just say that my wife has a variety of not very positive responses to my interaction with my female AI.

So that's friction.