The Most Urgent Precision Work Isn't in the Cleanroom. It's in the Narrative.
Brainport's success is an undeniable miracle of engineering. But on an Austrian mountain top recently, I was reminded how fundamentally illegible this miracle remains to the world around us.
Simply explaining what Brainport is, and which companies are part of it, is not nearly enough. Certainly not in Europe, not even in the region itself.
People see ASML expanding with new buildings and they encounter foreign workers in daily life. They see the consequence. They do not see the Hidden Choreography of specialized firms whose synchronization enables the growth of an industry and the growth of a region.
This disconnect is more than a communication gap. It is a strategic failure of institutional maturity that carries an accumulating cost: the comprehension deficit.
If we, the architects of this technological powerhouse, cannot translate nanometer precision into compelling human consequence, we risk losing the community support and political stability needed to operate.