We stand on the shoulders of the future
The future is not coming. It arrived while most people were looking the other way. Tools that would have looked like magic five years ago now sit in the pocket of every teenager with a phone. A sixteen year old in a small town can research, design, code, and ship something that once required a lab, a team, and a decade of credentials.
And yet the mood of the moment is not wonder. It is worry. We have more power to build than any generation in history and less encouragement to use it. That is the real problem in front of us. We are not short on talent, and we are not short on tools. We are short on belief, and above all on people willing to tell the young that what they imagine is worth attempting.
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