The original call
Original year: 2023
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Hit
Hit, and the verdict got more obvious by the month. By 2026 the gap between people who know how to extract knowledge from an AI on demand and people who do not has become one of the defining productivity divides in every profession. The people who learned to ask the right question, at the right time, for the right purpose — the exact muscle I had been describing for decades — really did turn it into a superpower. The phrase I coined in the nineties turned out to be the perfect description of the AI era.