Here is something so amazing it chokes me up:
There are so many layers to the awesomeness I just showed you. It’s a photograph of a football field sized spacecraft, floating 200 miles above my head and yet so large it can be seen at ground level by the naked eye, that was built in Earth orbit over the course of 15 years by a team of friendly nations, two of which as recently as twenty years ago wanted nothing more than to obliterate each other in a nuclear holocaust. Moments after I took this photograph, I was able to share the image instantly with anyone on the planet, using a 5 ounce electronic device that fits in my pocket.
I am in such awe at the fact that I was able to do that. The future is amazing and I want to make love to it.
The post industrial world is in some of the worst turmoil it’s experienced in decades right now. It’s easy to look at recessions and unemployment and TSA pat downs and political bickering and think we have nothing in store for us but futility and hopelessness. But try to keep this in mind: The photograph you just saw could be taken, and all because hundreds of thousands of incredible, unthanked humans wanted to build some cool stuff and just went and did it.
There are parts of this world that suck right now, but when you look at the big picture, you realize today is a fucking amazing time to be alive.
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