Why the Only Way to Build the Future is to Create it From Multiple Points at the Same Time

The best way to build the future is to create it from multiple points which converge 10–15 years from now.

That is the most efficient route to progress.

Historical precedent tells us as much.

The industrial revolution may have begun with steam engines, but their utility was realized almost immediately across every industry. Industrialization led to mass production which pulled more people out of poverty than at any point in history. I realize I am glossing over the conditions within factories, but the wider point is that the progress it enabled in terms of humanities ability to reach the next revolution was enabled entirely by one invention.

But, the key fact was that it was not monopolized by one market. The steam engine could quite easily have remained the dynamo which drove only trains, instead, entrepreneurs and innovators realized the exponential increase in efficiency it enabled and transplanted it to machines of all description.

As the world has progressed one inventions ability to impact humanity at such scale, so easily, has been affected. That is to say, that it is far harder to invent a thing that impacts the entirety of humanity as quickly.