"Blockchain is very clever, but has made the world a nastier place while losing a lot of people a lot of money. AI's trajectory from wait-and-see could just as easily go that way as any other. Actual change, innovation that sticks around and becomes part of a better way forward, doesn't have to and really should not make its inventors billionaires."
"A much more fruitful filter for the future can be stolen from nature. Evolution by selection and descent, the theory of everything for biology, is at once a living demonstration of successful innovation and a morbid library of its failures. It is both tautologically simple - survival of the fittest - and breathtakingly complex in the interplay of environmental factors, selection pressures, and the interplay of change and stasis."
The IT industry must keep moving and innovating to survive, mirroring shark biology. Venture capitalists and cash-rich tech companies pursue cutting-edge opportunities, but market-driven innovation can harm people and concentrate wealth. Technologies such as blockchain have caused damage despite technical cleverness, and AI could follow a similar path. Lasting, system-improving innovation should not primarily enrich inventors, and such contributions are often invisible when leadership is measured in dollars. Evolution by selection and descent offers a practical lens: selection pressures determine which changes persist. The Linux kernel faces pressures from new CPU architectures, evolving security models, performance expectations, and energy efficiency.
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