By @TechRadar
Publication Date: 2026-02-15 06:00:00
In 2026 there is artificial intelligence everywhere -It writes code, creates images, generates audio and video, analyzes contracts and runs customer support desks. Tech giants are competing over model sizes and training data, just as automakers once bragged about horsepower.
And yet, as early as 1985 – at the dawn of the PC era – some of the industry’s keenest observers warned that AI could be “the most despised and abused (software concept) of the next year.”
Waiting for AI hype
This sentence comes from Mitch Kapor, chairman of Lotus Development, speaking at the Personal Computer Forum in January 1985.
“The next big lemming-like rush will be on artificial intelligence,” he said. “So in a perverse way, AI is an exciting opportunity for people who realize what it can do for customers.”
The editorial from February 25, 1985 in InfoWorldtitled…
