The Kano Manifesto – Part I
I.
The future’s coming – but we’re not ready.
We live in extraordinary times. Most of us carry around pocket supercomputers, a million times faster than the mainframe that took Apollo to the moon.
There are 8.2 billion of these connected devices in the world. Most of them are built on open-source, open ideas – so is the International Space Station, whose laptops run Linux.
But today, tech creativity is like a sacred text before the printing press: a secret knowledge passed among a privileged few.
8.2 billion connected devices – only 50 million people who can make and talk to them.
Almost all of us have unprecedented power in our pockets. 1% of 1% us know how to do more than swipe and grab over these sealed sapphire screens.
To be ready for the future, we need simple, affordable, open tools that tie hardware, software, and storytelling together. Perhaps we don’t need more disruption. We need curation and explanation.
To get a job? Maybe. But more important, to have fun, to think critically and creatively, to take control of the world around us.
The printing press isn’t enough. We need a vernacular – Gutenberg Bible computing.