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I have heard one definition of "a sudden change that makes something once niche and seldom-seen become ubiquitous", such as the sudden reduction in price of consumer computing in the 1990s

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It's a change in how people think about problems or their relationship to the world. For example right now if you wanted 8 circles of different colors with words in them you'd grab a drawing program and be done in 15 minutes, but if you think about things only in terms of how an AI can do it it will take an hour and a half of explainations and corrections and the resources necessary to maintain a small garden habitat for months or years.