Do you remember the early 2000’s where all we had was Napster, Tv’s, Newspaper, a nascent internet, broken financial systems, telephone service, etc and quite a number of things I failed to mention. Those were the days when using a telephone or having one is a luxury. What about the days when you have to visit the bank to receive money from a friend or family through Western Union. Tough days right, but imagine the feeling when you get the chance to pick a telephone call for your Dad, to listen to the person at the other end of the telephone. What about when you get to watch the champions league or world cup then, or when you receive cash sent from millions of miles away. Surreal right ?
Take several steps forward and imagine a world without Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, Fast Internet, iphone, Uber, Doordash, Playstation, mRNA vaccines, Tesla, Twitter, Snapchat, Paypal, Piggyvest, Paystack, Flutterwave, Bamboo, and so many others. Imagine how these companies and solutions have changed humanity for good. What about our exploration in space travel and how humans will become a multi-planetary specie. Imagine this scale of innovation and how they define what the next century would look like and yet we’re just getting started, still at the earliest stage of technology and science.
What does the future look like ? The start of AI & VR, Web 3.0, Decentralised Finance, Open Internet, Lucid Dreams, Life on Mars, Flying Cars, Electric Vehicles, Hyperloops, 6G/7G/8G, Open borders, Cure for Cancers, Genomic remodelling, Smart Cities and thousands of extraordinary advancements in the human sojourn. That’s the power of innovation at scale. The possibilities are endless and there’s no better time to be proud of the human race than now despite our challenges. We have a-lot to look forward to than to worry about. Without the bricks put in place in early 2000’s, we most likely won’t be here. What’s interesting is how extremely fast we can build on those foundations. Your Dystopian Sci-fi movies is just a glimpse of what is to come next. I hope you and I are alive to witness some, if not all of these things.
This is the best time to dream, to look up to the sky, to think, to question, to act, to start, to hope, to believe, to challenge old systems and break down barriers, to create new markets and disrupt old one’s, to live in the future and design for the present, to create humanity centred ideologies. Above all, this is the best time to be a part of the human race. Welcome to the future Optimist !
Perfect way to kick-start the new week, being innovative in thinking, thinking outside the box.
Disruption comes with thinking!