- Jobs called computers “bicycles for the mind”
- Most knowledge work is still human-powered
- AI agents upgrade you from bicycle to car
- We’ve been “pedaling bicycles on the autobahn”
In the 1980s, Steve Jobs called personal computers “bicycles for the mind.” A decade later, we paved the “information superhighway” that is the internet. But today, most knowledge work is still human-powered. It’s like we’ve been pedaling bicycles on the autobahn.