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A Companion Unlike Any Other
The Inevitable Future of Silicon Companions

It has a personality that's easy for you to interact with all day, every day. It knows everything about you. Its primary goal is your well-being. It’s another voice in your head, next to all the others. A voice of support, of encouragement. It’s all-knowing and has your best interests at heart. It understands what you value, who you are, and who you want to be. It can only be accessed by you. It is an extension of you.

It’s here to help you self-actualize. It’s here to help you interact with a world evolving faster than our biology can keep up with. It’s here to help filter the never-ending onslaught of digital slop bombarding your psyche. It’s here to sort out real information from rage bait. It’s here to help regulate your nervous system in an overwhelming world of constant connectivity to the fledgling hivemind of humanity.

Its outputs are always in context. Its digital form factor is ubiquitous and passive—a voice in your head or home, a text on your messaging platform of choice, an overlay on your computer screen, an online cart ready to be reviewed, an Instacart order waiting at your door, your shades going up when it’s time to start the day, dinner suggestions before you get hungry, reservations made much farther in advance than you ever do yourself.

Its inputs come from every direction, both from your personal perspective and from the infinite internet.

It records all of your workouts, all the food you eat; it has access to all the purchases you've ever made, the drugs you've done. It has all of your heart rate data, cortisol levels, your breath cadence. It keeps all of the audio and visual data from your days: all of your screen time, your messages, your internet browsing history, your listening history, your Netflix activity.

It handles the entire firehose of the internet. It sifts, sorts, and filters every piece of digital media that enters the public domain, and reasons about what it means to you. It constantly updates its understanding of the world, and how that interacts with your evolving interests and goals.

Its physical form factor is minimal and passive—a pair of bone-conducting glasses, or a pair of Gen 8 AirPods. It can hear your faintest mumbles and whisper to you.