This is an inspirational except from an article about Kevin Kelly (one of my early internet heroes), written by Alberto Romero García:
Kelly eloquently explains why looking back at the early days of the internet now gives us that feeling we all know so well: “Oh, if only I realized the possibilities we had then!”
Short and cool domains were open, Kelly recalls. But even leaders of their sectors, like McDonalds, didn’t recognize the opportunity. Everything internet-related that we now take for granted was still to be built: browsers, search engines, video platforms, social media, all the apps you use daily, and companies like Google, Facebook, or YouTube.
It was all in the future. A future you could’ve built—if only you realized the possibilities you had then.
Kelly then transports us 30 years into the future and reveals the plot twist: there’s an even bigger future awaiting in front of us. People from 2044 will think the same of us, “Oh, those lucky bastards. They had all the possibilities back then!”
Those lucky bastards is us.
Alberto’s Substack: https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/you-are-not-late-to-artificial-intelligence
Kevin Kelly’s original article “You Are Not Too Late”: https://kk.org/thetechnium/you-are-not-late/
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