A Lesson from the history of technology

If there’s one lesson from the history of technology, it is that these changes are hard to predict. Everyone loves to point out that the number of bank tellers rose for decades after the invention of the ATM. But today, the bank-teller profession is indeed dying. It was killed not by the invention that was intended to replace it, but by one that no one expected: the iPhone. When it was invented, no one predicted that this new device would eventually transform how the whole world banked. Some of the most dramatic consequences of the AI revolution are guaranteed to be just as surprising. - Rogé Karma writing in The Atlantic