“When I was younger, I was frustrated that we weren’t building big ambitious stuff anymore. Just writing dumb little apps. When Carl came along with the tower idea, and I understood it was going to have to fly—that it couldn’t even stand up without embedded networks—the light went on. We had to stop building things for a generation, just to absorb—to get saturated with—the mentality that everything’s net-worked, smart, active. Which enables us to build things that would have been impossible before, like you couldn’t build skyscrapers before steel.”
