Building (for) the future.

I have started reading the book, zero to one, by the legend Peter Thiel. And the fast chapter talks about the future.

Peter says that the future is not built by taking the technology to every home, the future is built by building new technology. I am trying to understand this. Let’s say we stop the innovation that is happening right now. And just focus on taking whatever technology we have, to each and every home, each and every individual who lives on this planet. It won’t be futuristic. It will only be solving-the-accessiblity, but creating newer tech, new innovations is futuristic.

And this starts making sense as we think of it more. In today’s time we have chatgpt, it is magical. If we make it accessible to every single person in this world, it will do great wonders for our civillisation, but it will become stale in a few weeks/months. We can only do so much by using chatGPT as it is right now, we are excited about AI because of the advancements that AI is making each day, each hour, not just by the capabilities, but by the potential it has.

This is something that I have to keep in mind, and for that matter everyone has to keep in mind, everyone who aspires to build, who aspires to create. We do not want to focus on horizontal progress, it is mere transportation. We want to make vertical progress. We want to make things. We want to create the future.

We should make new and better things, and keep building it, endlessly.