{"id":28890,"date":"2026-10-27T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28890"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:52:10","slug":"the-future-of-ai-as-a-utility-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28890","title":{"rendered":"The future of AI as a utility, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now let&#8217;s transpose the time, but not the place. In a future New York City, when the AI connection to our eyeglasses or our contact lenses goes out, we will understand that a lot of things will temporarily become unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>We will temporarily not know how to cook a meal, do our morning exercises, find items in stores, pick out furniture, write an email, start a conversation at a party. or do many other things that we normally take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by current human behavor, what we won\u2019t do is blame ourselves for being dependent upon AI. We will take it for granted that AI is something that should simply always be available, and we will blame the internet for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound about right to you (no fair asking Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now let&#8217;s transpose the time, but not the place. In a future New York City, when the AI connection to our eyeglasses or our contact lenses goes out, we will understand that a lot of things will temporarily become unavailable. We will temporarily not know how to cook a meal, do our morning exercises, find &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The future of AI as a utility, part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28891,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890\/revisions\/28891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}