Comment by fossuser

Yes! It's amazing how even in a field that tends to lean more early adopter than average you still get a lot of the default knee-jerk dismissal and cynicism - even when it's something clearly amazing and useful as thinking machines.

We're in the middle of a major shift - there will benefits to those that adapt first. People outside the field have no idea what's coming, even those of us in the field are underestimating the shift.

There were a few outliers in the 60s who understood what the computing revolution meant and would mean, but most did not. This is likely an even bigger change than that.