We can argue about this, but within the last 100 years more has changed on our planet than any other time in the entire human history.
And we are right in the middle of it. It’s exciting. I can’t even sit still so excited I am to just think of the next 10 or 20 years.
The thing is, we always overestimate the things we can do in a short amount of time. But completely underestimate what we can do in the long term. And long term really just means 5–10 years.
We often like to think of the future as linear progression, thats the way we humans think of the simple things. If I can plant one tree a day, then in 30 days I will have 30 trees. So mistakenly we apply the same thinking to technological innovation. If my smart phone has 1GB storage today, it has 2GB tomorrow, and 3GB the day after.
But looking back at the last 100 years we clearly see that we’re progressing exponential. It’s not a secret, but we always have to remind ourselves again of this simple fact.