henry sztul

Today I dropped my daughter off at school for the first time in more than two weeks, great family time.

As I was walking past 6th Ave I looked south and noticed the Freedom Tower.  Wow, great progress since I last took this route way back in 2011.  In the morning light, the lights in the still exposed upper floors twinkle majestically.

Crossing the Avenue, as the tower started to disappear behind other buildings I was left to wonder, “What is there left to build?”

I was not around to see the bridges of NY be built, or the Tunnels, the Empire State building, the Interstate system, or even the Twin Towers.  These were all great feats of engineering.  And I fear that not many of their kind will be undertaken in this country in the foreseeable future.*

The engineering feats of my and future generations lie not in structural and visible feats, but more in the digital and scientific realms.

I am an engineer of the 21st Century.  Building the future of media consumption.  What it is? Totally unknown, totally up to people like us to build. Media giants have no clue what the future will hold, no idea what consumers want, no idea what the next step is. Another example of the Internet being a great equalizer. This is a huge opportunity, one that I can’t stop thinking about and look forward to waking up to every single day.

* [to argue this point you could say that we are building a tremendous new Aquaduct and Su way line under New York, which is nothing short of amazing. I’ll admit that.]

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