Ready to Build

In September 1991, two German tourists — hiking the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border — uncovered a mummified man who had died there over 5,300 years ago. This talk will explore the significance of this discovery as it relates to the history of human social evolution, what this tells us about our innate drive towards trade and collaboration, why this makes the web humanity's most exciting prospect, and why our charge of designing it is 100% completely and totally awesome.

Transcript

1. Ready to Build. Andy McMillan
2. Chapter 1. e History of Us.
8. A Brief History of Human Evolution
9. Homo erectus 1.3 - 1.8 million years ago Homo heidelbergensis 400,000 - 600,000 years ago Homo neanderthalensis 50,000 - 80,000 years ago
10. Homo sapiens 160,000 years ago
11. We learn to trade.
12. We begin to specialise.
13. We innovate.
14. Trade Specialisation Innovation
15. e more of it you do, the more of it you can do. Trade
16. We consume minuscule fragments of the productive labor of others in order to benefit ourselves.
17. Time.
18. Trade Specialisation Innovation
19. Trade Specialisation Innovation Human Progress
20. You.
22. “Otzi carried the accumulated knowledge of thousands of others upon him, their insig s manifest in his kit.”
23. With trade, we prosper.
24. Chapter 2. Taking prosperity for granted.
25. What happens when we take prosperity for granted?
26. We prosper.
27. We spread.
28. We spread.
29. Division of labor. Multiplication of labor.
30. What happens when we take prosperity for granted?
31. We invent.
32. We invent.
33. We invent abundance.
34. e more of it you do, the more of it you can do. Invention
35. We invent.
36. Capacity.
37. "All media are extensions of some human faculty." — Marshall McLuhan
38. Capacity.
39. e Internet.
40. e Internet.
41. What happens when we take prosperity for granted?
42. It's still not enough.
43. Chapter 3. Ready to Build.
44. e Story So Far ...
45. e Internet is inevitable.
46. e Internet is inevitable.
47. Our contribution.
48. Density.
49. Destiny.
50. Change.
51. We do.
52. “Software engineers as social engineers.”
53. We’re iterating into the future.
54. We’re iterating into the future.
55. Our community.
56. Trade Specialisation Innovation
57. Our community.
58. "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is, everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you ... " — Steve Jobs
59. e web as humanity's greatest prospect.
60. e web as humanity's greatest prospect.
61. Build.
62. Totally Fucking Awesome
63. ank you. @goodonpaper