The Jetsons Dream by my friend and colleague David Geere, makes the case for redefining our first-principles in response to the cataclysmic technological change that’s underway:
The Jetsons premiered in 1962 with chatty appliances, airborne commutes, and a house-bot named Rosie tidying life’s loose ends. Six decades later we’re still hunched over rectangles, arguing with voice assistants that forget what we said two sentences ago.
Amongst the industry hum of Jony and Sam, he sketches out a fork in the road for both Apple and OpenAI:
Here’s what I think is really happening. Sam Altman sees himself not just as the next Steve Jobs, but as something more — the person who finally delivers on technology’s broken promises. He’s got the AI. He’s got the ambition. And now he’s got the designer who made the last revolution beautiful.
Things are aligning. The iPhone moment in AI is coming.