I like the idea of mathematics becoming a startup space. We compete ferociously to deliver ideas. There is an abundance of results, but people don't really care. You have to prove the value of your work by weaving this subtle network of relations, communicating ideas. You can't assume that your work is important because you've solved a celebrated conjecture. The value is much deeper, at the level where mathematics really connects with the rest of the culture. Because mathematics is the branch of human civilization where we capture, in symbolic terms, the ways to manipulate the world. And now everyone is equal, literally. A professor's idea might become, even by accident, a part of a theory developed by a teenager who just clicked the right buttons. No one is in the lead. There might not be much comprehension either, especially when a half-baked machine spits strange tokens without any meaning to humans. There are many dramas where a human equipped with pure thoughts gets outpaced by a company with tokens. In the long march of humanity, that makes no difference. We collect truths, catalogue them, commoditize them, and weave them deeper into our ever-growing edifice of civilization. There are craftsmen of this strange culture who care about the "ethos of mathematics", cruel "mobs" who care only about "mathematical scalps", ad-hoc-formed societies of ever-growing human-AI augments, and even inhumane farms of computers which churn and harvest mathematics with no sense or understanding. I think it's important for contemporaries to think at the scale of thousands of years, societal changes, epochal drifts. The local dramas of the human computers in the 1960s and the current drama of the slightly larger archipelago of mathematical communities are a dot in the evolution of societies. And we humans are those tiny ants in the hive, somewhere out in the ever-changing forest. No one cares except us and our strange affection towards those little symbols, internal spine chills when ideas align in favourable ways, and occasional scaffolds pointing to the potential of building yet a bigger hive. Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games...