2025: Enter The "Ai 1st" Era
The last 30 years of technology have been an amazing evolution of capabilities and operating systems that have evolved from “The Web” to “Mobile” to “Cloud” and “SaaS”. We are now entering a new “Ai 1st” Era for scaling companies. Just as in the last four evolutionary technology eras, adopting and reorganizing your company and your teams to be Ai 1st is critical.
In 1995, “WWW” - The World Wide Web’s operating system - burst onto the scene. ? By 1999, if you weren’t operating with a “Web First” mentality, you were clearly on the path to being disrupted.?
Ai for many of us who lived through the dot com period feels very similar to this period of the late 90’s. While we certainly had the irrational exuberance Dot Bomb crash of 2000-2001, the web hype was not wrong. It was simply too much, too fast.?Some of today’s largest and most influential companies were born shortly before and after this web era, most notably Amazon, Google, Netflix, Facebook. The recent massive investments in all things Ai in Silicon Valley will end up producing a few new technology leaders while many other Ai companies will get absorbed into the winning companies.
Let’s continue the quick history lesson of our technology evolution…