I don’t think the 90s Internet is a good analogy of today’s AI frenzy. Perhaps look at the 70s with the wise adoption of the computer and later the micro comput

I don’t think the 90s Internet is a good analogy of today’s AI frenzy. Perhaps look at the 70s with the wise adoption of the computer and later the micro computer. Some paragraphs in The Soul Of A New Machine feel almost like they could have been written in 2025. “Claims and counterclaims about the likely effects of computers on work in America had also abounded since Weiner. Would the machines put enormous numbers of people out of work? Or would they actually increase levels of employment? By the late seventies, it appeared, they had done neither.”