Buried deep inside your phone is a little daemon that constantly asks a simple question: "Should the power be on?" Even when your phone is turned off, this daemon keeps asking the question, ready to act whenever the answer to the question changes from 'no' to 'yes.' This is how a computer works, and it's how, in some ways, the whole world works as well.
Everything starts with a question. The Genesis story says "and God said 'Let there Be Light.'" but really, first, God asked questions—' Should there be light?' and 'How would I go about making light, anyway?' and 'I dunno, maybe the dark is cool too?'
The question that started Rover was me emailing Josh and asking if we could build something that would use AI and social networking to help me get answers to my questions. What I love about what we're building is that Rover itself is still grounded in questions rather than statements.
Because social media today is all about statements. Your feed is a series of answers from people you don't trust. It's like an improv exercise where you're invited to say "yes, and" to every statement, no matter how wrong.
Rover is different. Every post on the network starts with a user asking a question. Rover provides a start at an answer, and then you as a user can invite others to consider more. And every question tells me something about what my friends on the network are thinking about and interested in, so every day I learn a little bit more about people I already thought I knew well. It's a great inversion of the usual social media feed dynamic.
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