The event horizon you describe is always there. Be it 3D printing, AI, moore's law... etc... The things these things enable, are hard to predict. Think about

The event horizon you describe is always there. Be it 3D printing, AI, moore's law... etc... The things these things enable, are hard to predict. Think about cloud computing. It changes the game massively for startups and for people who need enterprise class infrastructure as mere mortals. Another constant tension to show you how unpredictable all this is: Do you use kernel networking, let the kernel use hardware offloads, or goto use DPDK? The choice of what to do is changing as hardware changes, the kernel changes etc.... ... Once you understand, that life is ALWAYS at an event horizon.. you understand AI is just another such event. Prediciting the future is for the native... Making the future is the way to go. Currrently the AI guys are doing that. But another thing will rise up, it always does.