Opinion When the first generation of microcomputers landed on desktops, they promised many things. Affordability, flexibility, efficiency, all the good things still selling IT to this day. Mostly, though, they offered control.

PCs moved data processing from the local office and bureau to the person who most needed to control it. Since then, that control has been slowly clawed back until we’ve almost regressed to the pre-PC mainframe world. The promise of control has been broken.

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

There are three ways this is hurting hard enough to threaten America’s imperial dominance over enterprise IT, only two of which can be blamed on AI. The other is more immediate, more political and potentially more permanent, and it came home to roost

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