I'd like to live forever and explore the universe and live a billion trillion lives and build galactic empires. But we're a bit absent of that.

It's not about effort. It's about scope and scale and wonder.

Software programming can't live up to that. It's just manipulating symbols in a buffer that do some things. Nudging symbols around is cool, but there are so many even more amazing things left to unlock and do in the universe that are still out of reach.

"Born too soon", as they say. AI at least feels as though it's trending in the right direction.