It's the future, AI is smarter than us, and you're a paper clip

He described what it would be like for Washington to witness the technology of our time: cars, airplanes, the international space station. You could tell him about the large hadron collider and the theory of relativity, said Urban, and play him music that was recorded 50 years ago. "And this is all before he's seen the internet," said Urban, "the magical wizard rectangle in my pocket that can do a trillion crazy levels of sorcery, like pull open a map that can show where we are on it with a paranormal blue dot." Or let you hold a conversation with someone in Japan, on the other side of the world.