A tech leader argues that optimism about emerging technologies like AI and the metaverse isn't naive, it's strategic. By imagining best-case scenarios, teams spot what needs to happen for success and stay one to two steps ahead of the market.
It's. This is the hardest thing is you have to be constantly open minded to the potential of the future. So we always say when we're talking about any new and emerging technology, whether it's AI or Agentix or, you know, let's just go to something that we might roll our eyes at the metaverse or AR or VR. You can't go into any of them with a pessimistic view. You have to go into all of them with an optimistic view. If, if the metaverse took off. If you and I prefer. Because right now, the better version of this is you and me together in person. That's a little impractical. It's expensive, so we do it virtually. But you would right now say, hey, the worst version is you and I as avatars in a metaverse. My question would be optimistically, like, what if there was a world where that was the better experience? Right? Better than this, better than in person. And a lot of things would have to happen. But I think to be successful, that's the question you take. You don't say instantly, oh, that's terrible. Those avatars are dumb. This is never going to work. And I think that we've always done that and it's made it so that we are traditionally one and a half to two steps ahead of where the industry is.
