Electric lighting didn’t take over overnight. By the early 1900s, urban areas began embracing it. Still, it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that household adoption became nearly universal. This timeline reminds us: even world-changing innovations move at the pace of trust, not just technology.
The anxiety around AI today mirrors those early cloud debates. People worry about job displacement, data misuse, and control. These concerns deserve attention. But history shows that when we pair innovation with strong frameworks, progress usually brings net-positive outcomes. AI, like the cloud, will soon be foundational to how we live and work.
Today women comprise 29% of the C-suite, way up from 17% in 2015. Yet improvement in representation has been notably slower at the entry and manager levels.
Hundreds of millions in new funding opportunities for skills training have been announced in recent days.
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