Do I need the capabilities first to achieve a vision?

Which comes to the other: the vision, or the capabilities necessary to achieve the
vision?

Vision comes first.

Any vision, if upheld and acted according to its requirements, will turn into a "self-fulfilling prophecy." It will bring the necessary capabilities to achieve it, regardless of whether it is a vision of good or evil.

An old video I saw of Mark Zuckerberg was what prompted me to write this note. If you look at Zuckerberg's statements over the past few years, you will find that he always talks about one thing: enabling the technology to connect all the inhabitants of the planet to one another. It's a big vision even for someone the size of Zuckerberg, but it's easy for us to accept that it is possible because the man is one of the planet's wealthiest inhabitants and he controls an enormous army of engineers. Imagine if Zuckerberg was just the director of a startup and had spoken about something like this, surely no one would have taken it seriously.

But this is exactly what happened.

A while ago I watched a video of Zuckerberg that was recorded 10 years ago, when he was 22 years old. If I hadn't known that the video was that old, I would have thought that it was recorded last year, for example, because the man did not change a single letter of his speech.

Facebook was less than 3 years old, and the number of site users was in the range of 50 million, which is a much lower number than users of Myspace, the oldest and most used competitor at that time. In these circumstances, when Zuckerberg spoke about his vision for the future of Facebook, he made it clear that he seeks to connect all the inhabitants of the planet with one another.

At present, no one knows what Myspace is, while the number of Facebook users has reached nearly 1.8 billion people, and it does not seem that the man will calm down before his vision is fully realized.