If I am not mistaken, was not cotton itself - while known and used outside Europe for thousands of years - the polyester, a kind or wonder textile, of the 18th

If I am not mistaken, was not cotton itself - while known and used outside Europe for thousands of years - the polyester, a kind or wonder textile, of the 18th Century Europe that drove the British colonial expansion, the global slave trade and ultimately, in the form of Spinning Jenny, the industrial revolution? Strangely, while I disagree completely with the writer, I actually think he is completely correct in his analogy, although not the way he intended. I don’t believe AI will be a revolution the way Spinning Jenny, electronic computer or the Internet were. I believe it will be exactly like polyester, in a sense that it will be hyped for a bit, then people find the hype a bit of a silly fad, and after a while just get bored of it while it has become ubiquitous and plain common. Same way the oat milk carton will be designed by an AI bot directed by some senior advertising agent - as it probably is already - and some video game turned blockbuster video is slapped together by a supervisor and bunch of bots - as it probably is already - but people will flog to see something that is masterful and make them feel genuine human emotions. AI is a tool like any other and while I’m certain some future creative master will use it to make something truly stunning, without human creativity and innovation it will just churn out some boring slag that while vaguely useful nevertheless make us feel kinda bored and empty inside - kinda like my polyester sweatpants.