Silicon Valley

I think it's amazing to see how much people's life's can change with just a tiny adjustment to a daily product, yet it's even more impressive to see how the actual birth of certain products change the entire course of humanity. I don't really know who was the first person to talk about robots, and let's face it, robot's are just one in a bunch of examples that one of the key aspects of human evolution is commodity. Beyond that maybe robots weren't enough and people started wondering about if this robots could act, think and feel like human beings. They started asking themselves if robots could mimic us in such a way that, subconsciously, would make our lives, in a significant degree, more comfortable.

Of course talking about something and actually taking the time to really do something are two completely different tasks. Where I work there is a saying that goes like this: Everyone says what you should do, but few actually do. I think it applies exactly to the documentary. Yes, almost everyone at the beginning didn't knew that this technology was going to change the course of humanity (or did they?), but certainly a few years ahead of that, they should have known, and yet, specialization came to only one huge enterprise: Intel. Doesn't this leave you thinking about what day-to-day task you're leaving kind of unseen? Just like everyone else did with this discovery. What are you just leaving past by you?

Amazing story of marketing, innovation, vision and resilience, really. What can we learn from it though? I think it's the fact that the most important aspects of innovation lie and rely deeply on our own vision of how things are, and what they should be. And who knows? Maybe your vision one day will change the course of humanity.



Diego Canizales