We’re living in an interesting moment: culture has arguably changed more in the last 30 years than in any three decade span in history. Technology supercharged the pace of social change. The internet and smartphones drove change over the last quarter-century, and AI will drive change over the next quarter-century.

My bet is the next five years won’t feel as dramatic as the last three. We’ll absorb today’s breakthroughs, settle into plateaus, and then leap forward in sudden step-changes. New technology feels like magic, but we get calibrated to it in a week or two; it’s like we forget the revelation and it just becomes the base case. In ten years, much of

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The nature of technology is that it is always shifting, but our last 20 years or so have been marked by a complete digital transformation of society.