I remember when they told us that computers would revolutionize society, with work being done so much more quickly that humanity would have so much more leisure time to enjoy the fruits of the labor being done by transistors rather than humans,
They probably said that about the internet too. And they'll say it about AI. It's amazing that productivity continues to improve almost exponentially, but we still don't have all that leisure time that we were promised again and again. It's almost like something or someone(s) is sucking up all that improvement into a black hole of wealth for itself.
Almost..