I was recently reading a book about innovation. It covered many areas of human achievement and what led to creation of ideas and progress. For instance, coffee houses in the mid 1000s were consistently being banned in many parts of the world. This was due to the gathering effect and exchange of ideas among the people. Even at one point, King Charles II, made a bold prediction that coffee houses would band people together to take down the government.

Throughout all of human history most people never experienced even one big innovation in their lifetime. From candles, cotton gins, computers, hammers, etc. The last 200 years has been cradled in an incubation of innovation. Before then, the average person died in the same world as when they were born. Not much change.

From the Wild West to the Industrial Revolution. It still blows my mind how a person born in 1880 could have ridden a wagon across the West in the United States- battling famine, Native American attacks, snake bites, etc. No formal roads or highways. That same person could have also watched the Rolling Stones play in concert after a flight from New York to Los Angeles in the 1970s. No other time can I think of such a shift in society.

With the proliferation of AI, space exploration, etc I can’t help but think we are stepping into the same example of shift. To where a person born in 1990 will see this tremendous change in society from when they were a kid.

Crazy Horse, the Lakota Chief, prophesied “Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again, and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. “A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again”