I’ve Seen This Before

I am 49, which means I have lived through a few technology shifts close enough to remember the confusion before they became obvious.

I remember companies relying on manual spreadsheets and being skeptical of computers. I taught computer use to older teachers and executives in Argentina. For many of them, it felt unnecessary until it became impossible to ignore.

Then came the internet. I worked in networking, fiber optics, and infrastructure projects for AT&T and Telmex. Same feeling again. Connecting everything sounded abstract to many people, until it became the base layer for almost every business.

Then gaming, startups, mobile, Web3 craziness, and now AI. Different technology, same pattern: fear, skepticism, confusion. My instinct is always the same: learn it, use it, control it, integrate it. The people who do that early usually understand the change before everyone else has language for it.