AI and Society: Three Phases of Tech Adoption
I see people everywhere anxious about whether AI will disrupt their jobs, their industries, their lives. I’ve always approached this with calm. Not indifference—calm. The future rarely sends advance notice, but it is always arriving. This isn’t news. It’s the human condition. A few years ago, I attended a keynote by Michio Kaku where he framed—perfectly, for me—the relationship between humanity and technological change. What follows is my version. I can’t claim novelty, and I’m not a domain expert in sociology or economics. I’m an infrastructure builder observing the same pattern from the inside. ...