It's Hype 'Cause it's a Step Change

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”— Vladimir Lenin AI – wow! Just Google It I can recall precisely two times in almost 3 decades of technology work where I’ve experienced a step-change in my work process. There have been plenty that I would class as incrementally good changes, but only two with enough magnitude to sit back and marvel at life pre-change vs life post-change. The first was in 1999. It was also my first year of IT employment. That year that gave us the first installment of The Matrix; the Melissa virus hit IT departments with its macro-into-word-template payload. Half the year was spent changing computer clocks and running Y2K-readiness tests. And it was also the year I discovered Google search. Young people might not understand that pre-Google Internet life was pretty rough: there were plenty of search engine options, but the typical experience was: wading through duplicates, dead links, next page , next page , next page u