Old Wine, New Bottle? The Truth About AI, Innovation, and the Evolution of Information Technology.
Old Wine, New Bottle? The Truth About AI, Innovation, and the Evolution of Information Technology. AI isn't new. So why does it feel revolutionary now? A CIO perspective on technology evolution, AI, and business transformation. AI Is Not New. The Economics of AI Are. Is Information Technology Really Just Old Wine in a New Bottle? One of the most interesting questions I have heard in recent years is this: Is Information Technology simply old wine in a new bottle? Every few years, the technology industry seems to reinvent itself. We move from mainframes to client-server architectures. From on-premise infrastructure to cloud. From virtualization to containers. From analytics to artificial intelligence. Each wave arrives with bold promises. Every new technology is presented as transformational. Every vendor claims to be changing the future. Yet when we step back and look at the bigger picture, an important question emerges. Are we truly discovering new principles of computing, or are w...