It's Never too Late
Every generation thinks that there’s nothing new left to do, that all the possible things have already been done, wrote Kevin Kelly in 2014. Looking back, everyone thinks that the best opportunities lay just a decade or two ago. Take the Internet, for example. Here’s how most people today think of the Internet “opportunity” in the 90’s: “The internet was a wide open frontier then. It was easy to be the first in category X. Consumers had few expectations, and the barriers were extremely low. Start a search engine! An online store! Serve up amateur videos!” But now? “Thirty years later the internet feels saturated, bloated, overstuffed with apps, platforms, devices, and more than enough content to demand our attention for the next million years. Even if you could manage to squeeze in another tiny innovation, who would notice it?” Kelly points out that the abundance of today could not have possibly been foreseen by those who took the plunge in the 90’s: “We got: Instant...