claim accepted goes to: this-edition A all three

Ignore the doom: nobody knows what happens next

Every transformation came with the warning that this time is different; this one is televised. The hype may crash, as the dot-com did, and the opportunity was real both times.

Decided by. Dinis, in You are lucky to be here; whether the dot-com crash belongs in the opening is still his question

Where it comes from

• You are lucky to be here The hype, and maybe the crash (article)
• Two years in, the opposite the counter-story to AI burnout (newsroom)

What it answers in the 2018 book

• none named

Where it goes

Chapter You are lucky to be here, part Before you start (drafting); topic Everyone who can brief an agent is a developer now.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: The book opens with wonder, not fear and not technologies, Whoever reads this now is lucky to be here, Seven transformations, lived through: the Spectrum, the BBS, the internet, the mobile phone, the cloud, the apps, AI, Technology can finally work for you, Read it on paper, with a pen, The fear, impostor syndrome and anxiety about AI among young people, The immediate connection between a creator and what they make is the wonder the book opens with, Purpose, and optimism: Sinek for why, Kevin Kelly for what technology wants.

Node idea:nobody-knows in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.