People generally overestimate the short term effects of new technologies but underestimate the long term effects. I've heard the exact same things about smartp

People generally overestimate the short term effects of new technologies but underestimate the long term effects. I've heard the exact same things about smartphones in the past and now even my small village of 500 inhabitants is communicating with an app. It took a while though and suddenly, it was everywhere. The previous generations of AI (translation, text & image recognition...) are already widespread and there's no reason to think it won't be the same here in the future.