From Y2K to Y2AI

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. ...

May 13, 2026 · 4 min