We live in a bizarre era:
The great leap forward in human productivity is clearly visible, almost equivalent to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution—an epic event surpassing even the advent of the internet.
Millions of years of hunting and gathering, millennia of agricultural production, centuries of industrial electricity, decades of information explosion—and now comes the AI era of immense intellectual flourishing.
But we are not ready. Just as the invention of the container didn't lead to the development of suitable docks, cargo ships, and transport vehicles, we are still unprepared.
Human education, corporate systems, and individual survival will all face enormous challenges: society as a whole must be restructured to adapt to this unprecedented transformation.
Meanwhile, what pains crypto bros is that this transformation currently seems irrelevant to us.
Everything but crypto
US/A-shares and precious metals are constantly hitting new highs, stimulating everyone's nerves. Every day we study how to capture rapidly changing hot topics on the blockchain, how to manipulate, hype, and spur; we study every newly launched worthless coin, what the market makers are thinking, how they pump, dump, and crash.
We miss the dream-filled era of 2017 and 2021, when prices and narratives soared, and no one doubted it was the future; we even miss the on-chain memes and communities before Inscription and Trump's token launches, when a narrative would emerge, and those in the trenches would be rewarded with diamond hands.
The Industrial Revolution didn't change the world overnight, and the internet didn't fulfill its mission in the first bubble.
Perhaps crypto is experiencing what it must: a period of misunderstanding, neglect, and ridicule.
If it truly belongs to the future, time will not forget it.