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“The fact that like these devices had a camera that would lead to a visual communication revolution where like all of a sudden people weren't just communicating with text and voice, but they had the chance to communicate with an image.”

“And the phones worked just fine in space, and we had amateur radio astronomers around the world get these little Yagi antennas, these little handheld antennas, to follow the satellite, the little pictures it had been taking with the Phone camera. And email the…”

“And really the insight that the team had is, what's so different about a phone from a satellite? And turns out, like, the engineering processes, the capabilities internally, All of that stuff is very similar.”

“A lot of the components and supply chains behind these phones are going to enable a new kind of robotics company to be built.”

“And I think the smartphones became so ubiquitous that we almost forgot We have the agency to actually sign off from time to time.”

“And 10 years down the road, I think smartphone is just a glitch.”

“We should have tools that intentionally design, just like hammer or screwdriver. You use it You put it back, and you don't think about your hammer, 24 seven. You don't hold your screwdriver and swipe your screwdriver for five hours a day, right?”

“Smartphones are great. They're really, really great at what they can do now, but they're very limited in terms of how much more they can do. And if you think about if they're able to leverage some of these multimodal inputs that use text and voice and sound an…”

“So yes, you can beam into a proto right now Using your iPhone or any smartphone, you don't need to have a special camera.”