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We're sitting on
70 years of anesthesia
(and most people don't know it yet)
In 1772, scientists discovered nitrous oxide and spent decades using it for party tricks. It wasn't until 1844—seventy years later—that Horace Wells finally thought to use it for pain relief. For seven decades people endured agonizing surgeries, waiting for someone to join the dots.
This keeps happening. The gap between what's possible and what we're actually doing is what I call technological overhang. And right now, we're living through one of the largest overhangs in history.
I'm Will—a senior developer who can't stop thinking about this gap. Not in an abstract way, but practically: what can we build today that would have been impossible eighteen months ago?
By day I lead teams through technical migrations at Accenture. This site is where I explore what's newly possible, build experiments in limited spare time, and share discoveries along the way.
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