Google is our God. If you don't think it's your God, imagine your name and your face above every

Google query you've typed into that box and you're soon going to figure out you trust Google more

than any other person or entity on Earth.

But what we're doing now, because of the exoplanet revolution,

is we're going to be spending the next century staring hard

at all of these planets.

And who knows what we're going to find.

We have our consciousness at the network level.

Using blockchain technology you'll be able to support algorithms in artificial intelligence communicating with one another and it's in that

interplay of algorithms that you'll see the development of AGI.

Yeah my head is my head is spinning I want to I want to understand.

I'm Derek Thompson.

I'm a staff writer at the Atlantic covering business and technology.

For the last few weeks, I've been cornering some of the smartest people I know and asking them the hardest questions I can think of.

What step in this process from primordial goop to humans with consciousness do you consider to be the most unlikely?

I think it's technological intelligence.

What I'm really curious about is this. Is technology moving us forward or backward?

You are among the 50 plus percent of adults who have at least one tech-driven addiction.

Wow. Because in the last few years I think our plans to

build utopia kind of accidentally built the opposite. The most important

question is what do we do? Right? We can we can have an intellectual discussion I

think what most people want to hear is how do we manage this.

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