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Where Will AI Take Us To? Look at the Cloud and the iPad for Some Bold Predictions
Just as we can’t imagine a world without video calls anymore, we won’t be able to imagine a world without Gen AI ten years from now.
“Does your product live in the cloud?” That was the defining question of the late 2000s.
“Does your product use blockchain?” Welcome to the 2010s.
“How do you integrate AI into your product?” Thanks for bringing me back into the roaring 2020s.
As a B2B SaaS entrepreneur, I’ve seen a few tech hypes coming, going, and staying. History is generally a good teacher — what is true for warfare is also true for tech. So let’s dive into some recent tech history.
1. The Cloud
One of the first cloud-native apps was Dropbox. You could store your files in the cloud long before fiber-glass internet and 5G were commodities. Besides the free storage quota in the early adopter era, inviting others to join Dropbox increased your free storage quota. The network effects started playing their game, and Dropbox became a dominant cloud storage player long before Google Drive, iCloud, and…