Team 1989

The lesson of 1989 is that stagnant systems, no matter how imposing, eventually become brittle. The technologies born from that era, such as the World Wide Web—proposed that same year—were foundational, creating decades of prosperity from a spirit of open possibility.

That spirit has been replaced by a cycle of speculative hype. To reverse this trend, we must dedicate ourselves to building durable, difficult technologies that create real value.