diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f9e4a10..7970d32 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ The goal is to stay at 1.y.z until _at least_ the next edition of Rust.
 I consider any increase of the Minimum Rust Version to be a semver breaking change,
 so `rustc-1.34` will continue to be supported for at least the rest of the
 `bytemuck-1.y.z` series of the crate.
+
+(The secret goal is to get all of this functionality into the standard library
+some day so that we don't even need to import a crate to do all this fun stuff.)