the edge of knowledge is discovery— and discovery, almost by definition, looks weird before it looks obvious. heliocentrism: we circle the sun not it around us evolution: complex design without a designer gravity: space is bent, and bodies fall toward it zero: nothing is a number computer: a machine can become any machine link: link to anything in someone else's computer browser: a program can render every program git: everyone gets thier copy of the codebase notion: build software in a word doc twitter: like a blog, but can only type 140 chars bitcoin: money without a nation chatGPT: it's not autocomplete, it's iMessage . . . what looks weird now: predict the next word well enough a form of consciousness comes out