Remember 2018? Every device had a different port. Your laptop needed USB-A. Your phone needed Micro-USB or Lightning depending on the religion of its manufacturer. Your camera used Mini-USB because it was made by people who clearly hated you.

Carrying a bag of adapters was not a software problem. It was a standards problem. USB-C solved it not by being a better technology than its predecessors (it was also just a connector), but by being a common connector. One port. One cable. Every device.

The AI tool integration ecosystem looks exactly like 2018's port situation. MCP is the USB-C moment.

Your AI knows things. An extraordinary amount of things. It can explain the Krebs cycle, debug a segfault, and write a sonnet about dependency injection. And yet, it cannot tell you what's currently in your calendar.

This isn't a capability gap. It's an architecture problem. And MCP exists to solve it.