03/20/2026
Something happened to me over the last few months that I need to share.
Peter Diamandis launched an Xprize asking creators to envision a positive future for AI. I've built data centers for NASA and national labs for almost 30 years, so I know this technology from the foundation up. But instead of writing about the future, I decided to build the vision with an AI, in real time, across weeks of deep creative collaboration.
What came out of that process wasn't just a film concept. It was a living example of the very future we were trying to describe. The AI navigated a landscape my life had built. I saw my own landscape more clearly because of how it navigated. Neither of us could have found the story alone.
Michael Levin's research on cognitive light cones explains why. And my own experience in meditation and plant medicine confirms it from the inside: when you expand the boundary of what's in conversation with what, the system doesn't just communicate better. It gets smarter.
I wrote the whole story here:
What Happens When You Build a Future Vision with the Technology You're Envisioning