displaced workers had an opportunity to adapt and upskill.
Learn to code.
This isn't really what happened or how the world works at large. It just made a bunch of rich dudes much richer, and west virginians a lot poorer. And yeah it changed the world in the broad scope of things yada yada thats besides the point π
I think in recent years a lot of "innovation" has been pure marketing fluff and had no real potential to change the world. This one really might. I've tempered my expectations, because tech bros really want us to believe there is magic to AI, but eventually it might actually change the world.