The majority of our innovations occur through trial and error. The tinkering impulse people have all over the world and communicating it so that we built on top of each other leads to these breakthroughs.
This all just points to the fact that free exchange and experimentation are the ways humanity can optimize for creating wealth in the world.
Almost no inventor of a new technology could foresee the major impact it would have.
A large part of science is accidental - e.g antibiotics. Further, a large part gets discovered but does not become commercialized or does not get engineered into the right solution for a long time after.
The quote “The Future is already with us, it’s just not evenly distributed!” applies very well here.
Similarly, it is an accident as to how large Bitcoin has become. It is unlikely Satoshi predicted how large it would become. But through the free, unencumbered borderless exchange of people, it morhped into what we have today.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove
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"content": "The majority of our innovations occur through trial and error. The tinkering impulse people have all over the world and communicating it so that we built on top of each other leads to these breakthroughs.\n\nThis all just points to the fact that free exchange and experimentation are the ways humanity can optimize for creating wealth in the world.\n\nAlmost no inventor of a new technology could foresee the major impact it would have.\n\nA large part of science is accidental - e.g antibiotics. Further, a large part gets discovered but does not become commercialized or does not get engineered into the right solution for a long time after.\n\nThe quote “The Future is already with us, it’s just not evenly distributed!” applies very well here.\n\nSimilarly, it is an accident as to how large Bitcoin has become. It is unlikely Satoshi predicted how large it would become. But through the free, unencumbered borderless exchange of people, it morhped into what we have today.\n\n-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove",
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