Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment"
We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
One does not get a jet engine by improving the propeller. One does not breed horses until they give birth to a car. Telephones did not come from research on mail. Where on earth did the inspiration for the transistor and these other "leaps" of innovation come from to begin with?