Rands (aka, Michael Lopp) has been on his own deep dive into the world of the robots (aka, AI) and how they affect the future. There’s good news and bad news, he writes, and we’re in that inflection point where we can’t yet grasp the long-term implications of the tools that are suddenly at our disposal.

Like social media before it, we can’t conceive of the long-term implications of these tools suddenly being at our disposal. We’re either giddy with excitement about their potential or digging deep to find any and all reasons not to trust them. But trust your instincts.

Maybe the most reasonable thing right now is to be both giddy and skeptical as hell. Go all in, and yet trust very little. We thought we knew what the Internet would bring us in the mid-to-late 90s, and we weren’t even close to knowing it all. We got some things right about five or ten years too early, and yet made ludicrous guesstamates about what might be possible that now seem juvenile.