“If you stop to think about it, we’ve essentially found a way to make sand think. It’s miraculous.” - Dennis Hassabis, CEO Google DeepMind

Humans have done some wild things with sand.

In 1954, the first silicon transistors arrived. About four years later, in 1958, we birthed the silicon integrated circuit.

A mere four years later in 1962, Cronin and Gerow, two fellows from Texas, implanted the first fake silicon breast. Within a dog to start, but then soon after within a mother of six.

In 2026, these sand chips, now barely 65 years old, are thinking all on their own.

Such great gifts these dazzling CEOs and inventors have bestow upon mankind; the masters of material reality. The decades pass, and the hits keep coming.

Now, with thinking sand, we can cure diseases (all of them!), increase lifespans (forever!), generate more money (for… you! ;)) and eliminate poverty.

Sure, and you know what? We can do that anyways, right now, this second, ten years ago, one hundred years ago, even, if we could simply overcome our human nature. But can we? Will we? Is this likely?

Tech hype cycles are a sort of recurring boyhood fever dream: “Mommy, I solved everything again”! But how many times does the pattern need to repeat for us to collectively see through it?

“We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.” - Steve Jobs

Here’s our trip: We create a great new technical capacity. Then we say we can immediately solve the world’s real problems with it in a way unfathomable to the before times.

Recently it was: Let’s spend trillions on software, smartphones and data centres, and wire fibre optic cables and cellular broadcast towers throughout the now interconnected world. And we said: “This productivity boon will be like nothing before, not since the advent of…” and on and on.

We did all that. But it wasn’t enough, and then quickly thereafter LLMs appeared and now there’s that echo again: more, bigger data centres and the conquest of space. Doing, doing, and doing. Fixing, fixing and fixing.

Years before the spectre of AGI, our capacity was already immense. And yet we hammer away at an apparent better. It’s one-note. And it’s clear in my heart of hearts that the feminine perspective, the female, that sense of the mysterious other, the vexing yin, is largely absent in technical discourse, community and understanding.

“I’m here to push the patriarchy. And also, you know, horses.” - Ken, aka Big McTech

It is a great and vast blind spot — one most men simply do not know they have, and one women rarely have the patience to explain, settling to exude patient embodiment. Instead, right now it’s yang all the way, baby.

Startup culture, overrun almost exclusively by men, is not going to illuminate this blind spot and usher us into an enlightened utopia. Because that’s the whole point and the deep secret. The void cannot be filled. It must be accepted.

General intelligence will not be the end of history. We’ll make up new problems and keep trying and trying and doing and doing. After all, nothing is more horrifying to the raging hard yang than simply learning how to be and to be still. To stop and learn how to appreciate what you have, and to help others get what they need to live a healthy and happy life, to no distinct benefit to one’s own person.

So how about this? If you really want to get me excited about the future, let’s get our mothers together and ask them what they’d want. Because I care little what rich, grown-up man-children think is helpful for me.

Come to mama