From silicon to sentience: The legacy guiding AI’s next frontier and human cognitive migration

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Humans have always migrated, not only across physical landscapes, but through ways of working and thinking. Every major technological revolution has demanded some kind of migration: From field to factory, from muscle to machine, from analog habits to digital reflexes. These shifts did not simply change what we did for work; they reshaped how we defined ourselves and what we believed made us valuable. One vivid example of technological displacement comes from the early 20th century. In 1890, more than 13,000 companies in the U.S. built horse-drawn carriages. By 1920, fewer than 100 remained. In the span of a single generation, an entire industry collapsed. As Microsoft’s blog The Day the Horse Lost Its Job recounts, this was not just about transportation, it was about the displacement of millions of workers, the demise of trades, the reorientation of city life ... Read full article.