No, the good ideas aren’t all taken. In fact, if you want to be a big-impact entrepreneur, there has never been a better time to get started than right now. So argues Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly in his new Medium post “You Are Not Late.”
To get some perspective, Kelly suggests looking 30 years in the past, back to when the internet barely existed, and thinking about how great it would be to have been a forward-thinking entrepreneur then. That, Kelly suggests, is exactly what people 30 years from now will think about today—that entrepreneurs in 2014 had it made in terms of opportunity.
“If we could climb into a time machine and journey 30 years into the future, and from that vantage look back to today, we’d realize that most of the greatest products running the lives of citizens in 2044 were not invented until after 2014…
“There has never been a better time in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside, than now. Right now, this minute. This is the time that folks in the future will look back at and say, ‘Oh to have been alive and well back then!’”