You know, I don't write about politics. On the contrary, I stay away from it as far as possible. But maybe this is the time to break the rule, so let me share a few thoughts.
Two days ago, I was attending the Mobile World Congress in beautiful Barcelona. While walking amongst hundreds of much-too-much overexcited geeks, businessmen and demonstrations of all the unimaginable advances of the "technologies of tomorrow," one thought came to me: what all of it is worth if there is no tomorrow? It was such a strange, surreal feeling. Like being on the stage of the beginning of an apocalyptic movie, where everything looks completely fine, but the viewer is already anticipating that actually, the peace is hanging on a very thin thread...
We are a generation of people who do not know war. If we hear about wars, it is only a bunch of pictures on our TV screen. They are so far from us, so it all looks completely harmless. It does not resonate much inside with anything we've ever experienced before. "These are someone else's problems," we think and continue drinking our morning coffee. Well, it seems we all are in a bit different situation now. And if this situation is not resolved - I am afraid there will be no 5G, no augmented reality, no smart and self-driving cars and mobile phones. The whole civilised humanity will rapidly tumble down from the higher levels of Maslow's pyramid to the very bottom, where we will face nothing but endless basic survival.
Whether we like it or not, it seems the faith of the future might be decided on the streets and fields of the country, which (what an irony!) is the largest in Europe, but not everyone in the world could have pointed at on the map. But now everyone can. Because it is so much clear now that Ukrainians are not fighting only for their motherland. It's about all of us. So we can live in peace, continue to develop science, advance technology and, first of all: so nobody on Earth will ever be afraid of tomorrow.
Many say that these days "information is a weapon". And this type of support is also what Ukraine desperately needs. The global tech industry and hundreds of IT activists are already helping and supporting the freedom of information, which is phenomenal. I think this is desperately needed on both sides of the barricade. I also think it is very important that not only the giants of the tech industry but all of us: IT business professionals, not stay aside from the situation. We all should do what we can to support by any means the fight for the freedom of Ukraine. It's not their fight. It's our fight. Fight the future of the whole civilised world: the world of peace, the world as we really want it to be.