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Mar 22Liked by Andrew Smith

I first read the title as "Seeing Father" and my mind immediately went to some kind of dystopian Big Brother situation, except it's a Father, not a Brother, and instead of Watching you, he's Seeing you.

Welcome to my brain.

I saw those portals in a YouTube video the other day, fascinating concept!

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Seeing Father could be really fun. It's weird how a simple phrase like that can send your brain down little rabbit holes, but I know that feeling well. It doesn't take much!

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Also: how did we miss "seeing farter"?

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Okay, that livestreaming portal is beautiful. I can't help thinking that if we had those in more places -- like say, connecting red states and blue states, it could make a real difference in making things better.

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That was a point made by Mike! That's a big reason I was inspired to include it here.

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I'm also reminded of one of the earliest attempts at real world connectivity using the internet -- you might remember the light bulb project, where you could turn a lightbulb half a world away on and off using your computer. I remember being entranced by that.

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Those were incredible times. We could see that this was huge, but not really where everything was going!

I was also going to comment on that moment when Galileo saw moons orbiting Jupiter for the first time. What must have gone through his head?

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"I am about to be in some serious trouble" comes to mind.

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From my perspective, the universe expands at the speed of imagination/thought. Physical magnification objects are not needed anymore

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