Wide-Open Frontier

Reading through a blog post Kevin Kelly wrote I came across this quote: 

Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 2014? It was a wide-open frontier! You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!”

The optimism that runs through this essay is great and I highly recommend this interview for further thoughts on the future of tech and it's place in the world.