🔮 Living in the future

“This is why I brought Blueprint along, everybody,” I said. “As you can see, he’s a forward thinker. The writer Frederik Pohl once said, ‘A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.’ The claim that everything in the future will be programmable is an automobile idea. It’s not too hard to see or say

The challenge to being ahead of the trend . . . is finding out how does the problem you're solving touch customers' lives. If you are a good systems thinker you can almost always find a point at which that problem connects with something that they care about.