An answer from Steve Jobs, way before it’s time and very relevant now near the end of 2023…

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗯𝘀, 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱?

𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒔 “𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔.” 𝑰𝒏 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔, 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕. 𝑅𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑥. 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 ’80𝑠, 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 ’90𝑠. -𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝐽𝑜𝑏𝑠

Personally, you can swap (computers) out for (AI) and then we too in 2023-2024+ will have “a little friend inside that box” or in the cloud 😁

𝑇𝘩𝑎𝘯𝑘 𝑦𝘰𝑢 𝑆𝘵𝑒𝘷𝑒 𝐽𝘰𝑏𝘴 𝘧𝑜𝘳 𝘤𝑜𝘯𝑡𝘪𝑛𝘶𝑖𝘯𝑔 𝑡𝘰 𝘤𝑜𝘯𝑡𝘳𝑖𝘣𝑢𝘵𝑒 𝑡𝘰 𝘵ℎ𝘦 𝘧𝑢𝘵𝑢𝘳𝑒 𝑦𝘰𝑢 𝑜𝘯𝑐𝘦 𝘴𝑎𝘸.

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