- New tech mimics the form of what it replaces (McLuhan)
- Phone calls were terse like telegrams
- Early movies looked like filmed plays
- AI chatbots look like search boxes
This future is often difficult to predict because it always disguises itself as the past. Early phone calls were concise like telegrams. Early movies looked like filmed plays.
My Take
The image of ChatGPT’s input box identical to Google’s search bar makes this concrete. We took cinema and pointed it at a stage.