We don't want magic anymore. We'd rather say, I know how you did this, and then get back to scrolling our social network. Will quantum computing with all of the power it promises look like magic? I'm not so sure. What about life extension? The idea that with a hundred little shortcuts and steps, we can help people live a hundred years, a hundred and fifty years, two hundred years. A worldwide pandemic arises. It threatens to kill more people than anything in the history of humanity. Nobody fainted. In record time, less than a year, a worldwide network of scientists connected by a device that we just built in the last seventy years sprint to make a