Remember the internet in the 1990s?  Yahoo’s home page had categorized links like News & Media, Business & Economy, or Science. Clicking those links opened new pages with more links, without accounting for relevance or personal preferences. Yahoo had a search box, but search wasn’t a thing until Google came along.

Google still dominates conventional search but engagement with chatbots like ChatGPT is rapidly accelerating. Last year, Google embedded its Gemini A.I. in their Chrome browser. The search giant knows where the future is moving.

We are witnessing the earliest stages of artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Decades from now, the younger generation will look back amazed that their digital lives once relied on unsophisticated search engines and relatively simple algorithms.

Major economic shifts require new infrastructure. In our current moment, that means data centers. Progress has always stirred apprehension about the unknown and the pushback we’re seeing today is nothing new.

See the complete op-ed published in the NKY Tribune.