I actually checked my history then. There weren't many real tech companies in Malaysia. Even FAANG was still unstable, nobody really expected them to last. Esp

I actually checked my history then. There weren't many real tech companies in Malaysia. Even FAANG was still unstable, nobody really expected them to last. Especially that Amazon dude who was never making any profits. Most of the tech work here was just advanced spreadsheets. I thought the future was just boring stuff like better/faster/more scalable CRUD. There were a lot of poor jobs for intelligent people - basically if you graduated from Stanford, you'd probably end up selling foreign tech, building better spreadsheets, or consulting for a bank that doesn't care for tech. What I would bet on then was optical routers and 5G. Much of the other stuff was just sci fi. AI was one of those things. It's always been around as long as computers have; what are the odds someone would actually figure it out? It's more likely that some other paradigm like evolutionary programming would have taken off.