Future-of-Work

Here is a real story. Back in early 2025, one of my very AI forward colleagues and I were talking about where all this was heading. He was convinced that by the end of 2026 AI would already have dramatic reach across society. The paranoia was real. Jobs gone. Massive disruption. Entire industries changing overnight. I had a different view. Not because I thought the technology would fail. Quite the opposite. I thought the technology would become capable of doing almost everything surprisingly quickly. ...

I finished high school in Delhi in 1999. That year still sits somewhere in the background of everything that came after it. Not sharply. More like a low hum. The world felt like it was shifting, but nobody had a clear map of where it was going. Y2K was part of that atmosphere. Not in a precise way. More like background tension. Computers might fail. Systems might misread time. Something about the infrastructure of modern life felt slightly untrusted, even if nobody could quite point to where the risk actually was. ...