Travel Tech Essentialist #199: The Optimist's Edge (opens in new tab)

The world is more interesting than the headlines suggest, and the people who see that don't wait for consensus. The pessimists have been wrong about every transformative technology in history. They were wrong about the camera, the bicycle, books, manned flight, music, radio, the internet, and they’re wrong about AI. New technologies expand the world, and the gap between the catastrophist and the early mover is where opportunity has always lived. Seeing the gap requires a trained disposition. ...