The personal computer revolution was revolutionary. The PC revolution happened because the computing industry didn't realize how much value it was sitting on. If they did, the first consumer-market computers would have been made in a much more tamper-resistant way, like, say, the first "smart" phones. The current apparent inflection point in computing capabilities is not revolutionary, but counterrevolutionary, because all the technology is proprietary, and the people who own it have been taught by the DIY revolution that value capture is far more important than value creation. The indisputable fact that a few of the "AI" technologies really are game-changing is cause for sorrow, not celebration. While obviously able to serve man [sic], these technologies, being proprietary, will do so at a cost, and that cost will be paid as economic rent. I used to be awestruck by launches of missions of space exploration, with that feeling that we're an innovative species, but since that got privatized, I'm simply not feeling it any more. This feels the same. It's progress, but I'm not in the club that it belongs to.