Nostalgia

I loved Star Trek as a child. The ships and the strange worlds were the obvious draw, along with the sense that the universe was enormous and mostly unexplored. What stayed with me, though, was something I couldn’t have put into words back then. Star Trek assumed that humanity would grow up. In its future we hadn’t only invented warp drive. We had stopped organizing our lives around fighting each other and pointed the ambition of an entire civilization outward. ...

From CLS to Agentic AI I was born in 1977, right at the intersection of two worlds. Old enough to remember analog. Young enough to grow with digital. My first program was written on a Dragon 32, a home computer with 32 kilobytes of RAM and a keyboard that felt like it came from a typewriter factory. My oldest brother brought it home one afternoon, and it was the first computer I ever saw in real life. ...