No, the internet was always obviously useful. It's the best communication tool since the written word and people were using it as such from the beginning. Of co

No, the internet was always obviously useful. It's the best communication tool since the written word and people were using it as such from the beginning. Of course not many people had access in the 1980s but those who did (college students) were using it constantly to communicate with people around the country (and soon the world). AI (in the general sense) is also obviously useful, but the jury's still out on whether LLMs are the way to get there. Right now their best use-case seems to be cannibalizing the search market. It's not clear whether they can fully displace search engines though, given their stubborn propensity for confabulation.