If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.