I have seen the future.
I’ve just returned from a local meetup of builder enthusiasts, eager to use AI tools to build anything they can imagine. As a demonstration, a website was built, uploaded, and hosted in less than two hours.
Not a single key on the keyboard was typed.
By daisy chaining a few tools and plug-ins, the whole thing was constructed via voice commands. Superwhisper translated speech to text into Cursor with Claude-4-sonnet and I watched code build code.
You can build anything: Websites. Apps. Videos. Photos. Novels. Friends. No programming knowledge required.
Driven by endless GPUs and code, what I was witnessing is what Nietzsche called Wille zur Macht or “will to power.” Will it and it appears.
Technology has now reached a point of democratization where everything specialized is obsolete. The Boomers with RFID badges around their neck running IT departments nation-wide are now dinosaurs waiting to fossilize. Designers, models, Hollywood all shudder before this Great Awakening. The Everyman has the tools to surpass them for a fraction of a fraction of the cost. Overnight businesses are outmoded, undercut, and turned into relics.
If anyone can make anything, will there be specialization any more?
The way we learn will change. The way we work. The way we interact. Creating will supersede doing. It’s not a Great Awakening, it’s a Renaissance. Behold the works of art made from silicon and not paintbrush or ink.
This Big Bang 2.0 will continue to expand its universe like its predecessor. Backed by massive influxes of capital, evolution will come quick and fierce.
The next battle is going to be over ethics, trademark, and right of ownership of things willed into existence. But it might be awhile for that gets sorted out.
August 6, 2025
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