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I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy recently, a near-future sci-fi epic of terraforming, ecology, politics, big history.

One of the intriguing background details in this story is that everyone has a personal AI.

Your AI can think with you, riffing on possibilities, helping spark creative breakthroughs.

Your AI keeps a running a log, and fine-tunes itself on everything you’ve been thinking about.

You can talk to your AI, like Siri. You can also read it, like a book, and add notes to it, like a notebook.

Your AI can do research for you, ambiently crawling the net for things you’re thinking about, reporting back.

Your AI can talk with other AIs, negotiating with them to get information you need.

Your AI can do complex calculations and spot high-dimensional patterns… the kind of thinking computers are good at.

The data in your AI belongs to you. It is end-to-end encrypted. Only you can access its locked contents. Yours for life. You might even pass down a personal AI to your kids, like sharing an old journal, but interactive.

An AI networked notebook. A second brain.