The Great Smartening

The opportunity of the present is what I would call The Great Smartening. Or perhaps The Great Flattening. Meaning, anything we now want to do, we can just go and do it. If we want to install a new toilet, we watch a video. If we want to have better sex, there's a very effective Netflix series for that. If we want to cook or bake better, there are a million and one how-tos on Instagram. Anyone can make anything they want. It is all within reach. There are no more black boxes. It's not a question of success and failure, because whatever we want to do, we can do it. And as Anna Jaffe says, we can't fail, because the world is on fire.