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This is a well-thought out piece, one that’s worth reading again tomorrow. It’ll be interesting how many companies truly embrace AI (something you’ve encouraged) and those that only give lip service to it.

I can remember doing a creativity session in 1996 with a group of Andersen Consulting (named Accenture after 2001) systems professionals.

The point of it was that top management wanted to drive home the vital importance of the very new concept of “client/server” technology to the firm’s success and to all of its customers. Designing IT systems with “client/server” in mind was the path to the future, that is, making the Internet a productive enterprise by the year 2001.

I’d say that at that time not more than half the participants knew just how important “client/server” would be. But top management bought into it entirely. And they were absolutely correct.

You may smile at this example. But I imagine that the same thing will happen with the various pieces of AI.

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