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Technology can produce more beginnings than any person could reasonably complete. The work of the foundry starts after possibility appears: narrowing the problem, building the structure around it and carrying a useful idea all the way into someone’s hands.
Computation is becoming inexpensive enough for software to act continuously on behalf of people and organizations. That creates enormous leverage—and makes provenance, authentication and accountable human judgment more valuable rather than less.
A product does not become serious because its first version is large. It becomes serious when a narrow version survives contact with real users, proves that the problem repeats and earns the right to carry more complexity.
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