Or we hoped we would just be in the right place at the right time, like the young Bill Gates. Thinking about what was necessary and sufficient for a revolution was too hard, and the cliches only confused us. I vow I'm not going to miss a revolution again. Sitting at my desk with a blank pad of paper, maybe I can anticipate the next revolution. Not from engineering, but from human needs.
Size is no longer power.
That lesson of revolutions is clear. Quickly my pad is flush with ideas for a next revolution. Given the dream, the algorithms will follow, their foundations in past work of philosophers and programmers alike. I know where to begin. Looking from where we are today, these new systems are not recognizable as possible.