Photoshop 1.0 and the landscape of possibilities
Transformative tools tend to arrive before anyone knows what they're for.
Originally published at webdirections.org.
Big technologies tend to arrive before anyone quite knows what they're for; it took years for Photoshop to become Photoshop. A note on why generative AI is probably at that same early stage — and why its genuinely transformative uses are likely the ones nobody has thought of yet.