We’re at a new stage of our evolution. The world has fundamentally changed at an unprecedented pace over just a few decades. Those of us who were alive to see this technical revolution unfold firsthand know that it has been quite a remarkable sight to behold.
Before the technical revolution took place, in the Before Times, there were no mobile phones and no internet, and you needed a single computer that filled an entire room to perform simple math calculations. Today, we have more computing power in our pockets than existed at that time. We have virtually the whole volume of recorded human history at our fingertips or the end of a simple voice prompt. We have also achieved the ability to travel throughout our solar system; teleport photons; decode, edit, and reverse engineer the human genome; and unlock quantum mechanics to create supercomputers that exceed human capabilities and, to some degree, our understanding.
We owe these innovations to our ability to harness and build upon technology. If it were not for the devices, networks, data centers, automation, intelligence, and innovators – none of this would be possible today.