I coined the term a holy shit moment a long time ago. There have been many of these over the years. When I first saw the game Doom. Proper drawing software, Corel Draw, that was a holy shit. The silky smooth touch screen scrolling on the first iPhone. Holy shit.
It's been awhile since I've felt a holy shit moment. Yeah, the humans are doing cool things, but… we've been stuck in a rut. Building cool, but iterative works, but nothing which has me sit straight up in the chair and exclaim…
Dinner at the parents’ for the 4th. I brought a good bottle of Silver Oak. A glass and a half in before I jumped into the conversation. I forget the segue, but I remember what I said, "You remember when we realized the potential of the Internet? What's going on with the robots right now… It's bigger." I hit the table for effect.
Content, Memory, and Voice is one of four articles I've written in the past month, but the first one I've published. All the pieces are about how the robots have greatly affected my day-to-day. There's good news, there's bad news, but mostly it's me staring intently at this forthcoming revolution and trying to predict the unpredictable.
Tragically optimistic is how I feel. I am full of optimism, but I've been through enough of these revolutions to know it's not the revolution, but the consequences that are the real…
Holy shit.