The future of technology sometimes goes in surprising directions, taking an obvious path and then suddenly doubling back to go down a road less traveled. There was a time when The Future was underpowered client devices powered by remote servers until it wasn’t–and then (thanks to cloud services and AI) it was again. The rise of AI as a force in the tech industry–for good or ill, be it snake oil or world-changing (it’s probably in between on both
