Hey Colin, really liked this. It makes me think of this story I heard about Elevator Operators vs. Automatic Elevators after WWII. Linking an article below, but the part I find fascinating is when automatic elevators arrived there was a panic among operators - oh no! Our jobs are gone! But then that didn't happen because the public didn't trust the automatic elevators for safety reasons. So then the operators were like, oh, huh, I guess we're okay. And they were for years. But then two things happened: there was an elevator operator strike which got the operators gains but scared the crap out of building owners and then the elevator people figured out how to solve the safety problems (emergency phone in cars, emergency stop buttons). So it was almost like the future arrived, but then there was this lull, because a couple smaller details had to be figure out first. And lots of people mistook that lull as the status quo will never change. I think about that lull and wonder if that's where we are w/ AI. Here's that article, if you're interested: https://henrylgreenidge.medium.com/how-a-historic-strike-paved-the-way-for-the-automated-elevator-and-what-those-lessons-could-mean-a0ae49993796
Hey Colin, really liked this. It makes me think of this story I heard about Elevator Operators vs. Automatic Elevators after WWII. Linking an article below, but the part I find fascinating is when automatic elevators arrived there was a panic among operators - oh no! Our jobs are gone! But then that didn't happen because the public didn't trust the automatic elevators for safety reasons. So then the operators were like, oh, huh, I guess we're okay. And they were for years. But then two things happened: there was an elevator operator strike which got the operators gains but scared the crap out of building owners and then the elevator people figured out how to solve the safety problems (emergency phone in cars, emergency stop buttons). So it was almost like the future arrived, but then there was this lull, because a couple smaller details had to be figure out first. And lots of people mistook that lull as the status quo will never change. I think about that lull and wonder if that's where we are w/ AI. Here's that article, if you're interested: https://henrylgreenidge.medium.com/how-a-historic-strike-paved-the-way-for-the-automated-elevator-and-what-those-lessons-could-mean-a0ae49993796
Thanks man!