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Hi Peter, love your work, it truly makes me fascinated with what the future of humanity will be able to achieve. A few questions:

1) If abundance and amazing technology is our future, what will be the motivation for anyone to disconnect from Matrix-like, fully immersive, virtual worlds (where anything imaginable might be possible)? Also, considering that advanced alien civilizations probably reach the technological ability to create virtual reality like this before interstellar space travel, would this be a valid explanation for the Fermi Paradox?

2) Being in medical school I am extremely interested in what being a physician will actually entail two decades from now. You have a unique perspective since you actually went to Harvard Medical School (and somehow started you own space company and university while attending) but decided not do your residency afterwards. If you were graduating today, what residency would you choose (i.e., has the greatest potential)?

Keep up the inspiring work and please also see if you can get your buddy Ray to do an AMA too! Hopefully he'll have the time, even though I've heard that Google has locked him in a room and won't let him out until he creates a strong A.I.

Thanks for answering!

1) Sounds fascinating to me, but I imagine people complaining of privacy issues with the government and Google today will have problems with this scenario.

2) So in other words, leave medical school, join MIT, and build robots, like you did? Time to reevaluate life choices I guess...