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by Kent Kemmish(tree) April 5, 2021

We're demonpore, inc., and in the month of March, we started to tell people about the , the world's first .demonpore 64™ molecular gaming console™

Soon, one of the world's leading scientists, Prof. George Church of Harvard/MIT, who happens to be on our Scientific Advisory Board, tweeted about us:

There were many very excited, positive responses to George's tweet—thousands of people came to our website, and hundreds signed up on the waitlist. There were, however, some people who were our whole project was an elaborate prank. The most supremely confident of these earned a special place in our future corporate history:quite certain

The response was understandable. And we were kind of asking for it: after all, we could have called it something less provocative, and we could have described it in more measured terms

But, if we did that, would anyone notice? Would anyone think new thoughts—and feel inspired?

After all, by the end of the coming decade, we want everyone on the planet to have easy access to advanced molecular sensing tools. And we're currently on a planet where very few people actually know what that means—or why it's one of the most important things we'll ever do as a species. If our marketing can make people think, if it can get people to pay attention, if it can inspire some while freaking out others... then we've won the early skirmishes for mindshare. The epic quest has begun!

And LOTS of people thought new thoughts and felt inspired. As a startup, we went through Y Combinator, the world's most exclusive and prestigious startup accelerator. Y Combinator's motto is "Make Something People Want". We're certainly doing that!

And we're bringing along our customers, our investors, and eventually every person with molecules inside of them on that quest

We're not just selling a physical object, for sure, but here's a quick look "under the hood" of the flagship product:

As cool as we think this is, what's even cooler is what will happen when we put a bunch of them together:

Our over-the-top statement "most powerful scientific instrument of all time" probably added to the April Fools' vibe. But we stand by it!

The truth: even a few hundred of these devices gathering data—exactly our goal this summer!—will have power exceeding any commercially available technology based on solid-state nanopores. And the full product launch—aiming for the equivalent of just of the 2 billion global video gamers—would mean of instruments—something worth calling the0.1% millions Global Molecular Mind™ !

And we've already built and tested the on-ramp to that mind—what we call : MolecularTV™

This is, non-obviously, one of the coolest things about what we're building. The paradigm solves a big problem: installing software for scientific instruments can be a huge pain. Being able to just connect to the internet and do your science from a website is impressive all by itself. MolecularTV™

If you think of the as a neuron in the brain of the, then is how that neuron fires. demonpore 64™ Global Molecular Mind™ MolecularTV™

But what will we, as the consciousness of the , about? Well, first, we will learn about by . And every game we'll play together is a MISSION:Global Molecular Mind™ think Molecular Reality™ playing

And here are some of the first games we'll play this summer with the alpha launch of the ™:demonpore 64

A summary:

NOW, two final things—first, you've come this far, and we haven't addressed the name issue. Here's why we're called :demonpore™

There's a future where our grand project succeeds, and one where it doesn't. Think of yourself as a world-line navigator—vote with your cash to determine which future comes to pass!

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