Man - I am having some really existential thoughts about this one...

I mean even the definition of Late depends upon the system from which you are measuring? Every instant you are alive...you are late for your own funeral? From the perspective of the dead....if there is such a thing?

I think the reason so many humans fall into this trap of thinking they are late to something is due simply to how we have measured everything in our lives up to 1/3/09. Until Bitcoin's release into cyberspace measuring anything over long periods of time was subject to the system being used to measure it...think about how long it took to agree upon standard units of measure...height based upon "hands"...

We now have the ability to not just set something in stone, but set it in the blockchain... That information being recorded is immutable and eternal. (Period)

We have never - in the history of man - been able to record something and know that it will be there forever for all who come after us to see and learn from.

Late...sheesh... Imagine thinking you are late to learning how to read/write because the printing press was invented 600ish years ago so...no one is going to write a book anymore? Well we all know that isn't true...

Anyway - not sure where I was going with that other than to say - I agree with you - we are not late - we have just made the first atomic stratch in the infinitely large blochchain of the future and none of us have even the slightest idea of what that future will look like beyond that which we are building towards now.