my grandfather lived Through an era of incredible technological innovation. He saw the invention of automobiles, planes and rockets. He lived through the atomic age and the dawn of mainframe computers. He didn’t live long enough to see the PC and its impact on my professional life, but he went on to create many of the technologies that laid the foundation for what is happening today.
I have been working on this for a long time. I remember working on an early IBM PC. I then accessed the text-based Internet through a 300 baud modem. It reminds me of the early days of the World Wide Web.
My first cell phone was a Motorola brick phone. My first iPhone was a 3. In short, I’ve seen a lot of technological change, but I’ve never seen anything like what I’ve seen in the last few months, weeks, and days.
Just think for a moment that ChatGPT 3.5 took the world by storm in December. OpenAI released ChatGPT 4 last week while I was on vacation. This is what OpenAI unabashedly called “cutting edge”. Generative AI has suddenly accelerated in new and exciting directions this week with the launch of plugins for the internet itself and useful tools from Expedia, WolframAlpha and others.
All this is happening with astonishing speed. We feel like we’re living an inflection point just like we saw it on the first IBM PC, the Internet, the Web, and the iPhone. But this moment of change is happening so quickly that it barely has time to process the latest twist before the next iteration shoots a shot.
You know, like the moment we saw with the advent of personal, connected, and mobile computing, something big is happening, but it’s not yet clear what it will be. At this point, we know there’s exciting new technology out there that could change the way we interact with computers, but it’s not yet clear how it will unfold. in a way.
Last week, during a panel discussion led by Docker CEO Scott Johnston, Ilan Rabinovich, Senior Vice President of Products and Community at Datadog, spoke about the parallels between what we see today and the early days of the internet.
