you might be thinking of seinquotes -> click the image to get a video gif of the quote https://seinquotes.com/?search=hold+the+reservation

yes, think of it this way: why is it that bathing the Earth with 10^55 Boltzmann constants make it seemingly emit a Tesla?

can we construct a warm winter garment without having to manually pick open cotton poppies?

if we place energy in the right location, can we have slime mold do computation for us?

how do we organize matter and energy in order to watch a funny cat video?

i wasn't around to see the first humans land on the moon. i feel a similar deep sense of awe and excitement to see this revolution

https://xkcd.com/676 but now much, much more efficient

yes absolutely: current systems are wildly inefficient. the future is one of extreme energy efficiency.

re smoking: sorry let me clarify my statement. these things will be the dominant life forms on earth in terms of metabolism, exceeding the energy consumption of biological systems, over 1k petawatt hours per year, dwarfing everything else

the lines betwen us may blur metaphorically, we'll be connected to them how we're connected to ecosystems of plants and bacteria. these systems will join and merge in the same way we've merged with smartphones -- but on a much deeper level