"If you are feeling overwhelmed by the speed of change, join the global club!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

To work at the leading edge of AI today is to work with a world that is moving at an astonishing speed. All around you. It's a world of fast-moving developments. To name just a few:

At the end of January, a new ‘agentic AI’ platform, now known as OpenClaw, was released to the world by a software developer. Use and adoption exploded overnight as the global tech community installed, explored, and began working with it (I’ve yet to jump in). Just yesterday, Nvidia announced a corporate enterprise version of the concept known as NemoClaw, which addresses many of the security and other concerns of the original software. We've never seen software that has gone from the release of a concept to a scalable, corporate enterprise version at such a speed.

That’s but one aspect of fast-moving change. The very concept of how we use AI is changing. In the last few weeks, Claude Copilot and Claude Cowork have taken the world by storm. I’ve spent the last few weeks working with the latter, using it to fix x up some aspects of my home automation system, help with editing my latest book, exploring issues related to my spinal injury, and managing a little biographical project I’ve been working on. The change with what this software brings is profound — I no longer ask an AI a question, I instruct the AI what work I want it to do.

Other new platforms are emerging all around us. Today’s image was generated by using a new feature on a presentation AI I use, gamma.app. I simply instructed it with the type of image I wanted and the words I wanted to use, and I quickly had 3 options to choose from. (I chose one, flipped it into Canva, and placed a photo on top.) Hours later, Google announced Stitch By Google, which, by all indications, should do the same type of thing.

To understand AI, you’ve not only got to understand how quickly it is moving, but what exactly IS moving.

And to understand AI, you’ve got to commit to being overwhelmed by the speed and breadth of what is occurring all around you.

Sometime last year, I observed that watching AI is like watching the emergence of the Internet in the 90’s. And right now, it’s like we are in our Netscape moment. When that software appeared, people around the world realized that the nature of the Internet had changed forever, and that the world was, at that moment, a world of unprecedented opportunity.

We’re at the Netscape moment right now.

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Futurist Jim Carroll lived through the 'Netscape' moment in the 90s and was astonished by the creative energy it unleashed around the world. This new moment is even bigger.

**#Overwhelmed** **#AI** **#Speed** **#Change** **#Innovation** **#Technology** **#Agentic** **#Claude** **#Netscape** **#Opportunity**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-the-acceleration-of-ai-if-you-are-feeling-overwhelmed-by-the-speed-of-change-join-the-global-club/

“I wrote a browser that shows inline images at exactly the right time and am now … happily free of introspection.”
#netscape #billionaires
https://www.threads.com/@perfectunion/post/DV88utRAVov
More Perfect Union (@perfectunion) on Threads

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

Threads

Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 von Jahr 1999: Programme vorgestellt 1/2

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/ashJi78qQKwik8GTXHXnu9

4000-Abo-Spezial: Zeitreise ins Jahr 1999 mit Caldera OpenLinux 2.3: Programme vorgestellt 1/2

PeerTube

Schaue gerade eine ZDFInfo Doku zum CCC - 1995, da gab es ISDN mit 128 KB Download und den Netscape Navigator. ISDN vermisse ich nicht, aber den Netscape Browser schon.

#ZDFInfo #Netscape #1995

@bielsubob

I do miss Netscape. The last edition of Netscape — which, ironically, they released on the same day they announced they were discontinuing it — was, in fact, an improvement. I can only imagine how the development team felt, having put in all that wonderful work, which ran smoothly, and being proud of it with great fanfare, only to be told hours later that they were all being laid off and the project discontinued. AOL did Netscape dirty, and I’ll never forgive them for it.

#Netscape #AOL #History #Internet

"…until #Netscape introduced tables to the Web later in #1995, there wasn't a standard way to implement columns or do a grid design.
Despite those layout limitations, in the first half of 1995 we saw a few #websites emerge that had a pronounced visual flair — these sites felt like something to be experienced, rather than simply a collection of pages to read.
The #BatmanForever site was one of these new experiences."
#webdev #webdesign

https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-web-design/

1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables

1995 begins with web designers creating cinematic experiences using images and browser tricks, and ends with the arrival of table support in Netscape Navigator — giving true control over layout.

Cybercultural
1995: From Batman Forever’s cinematic design to HTML tables

1995 begins with web designers creating cinematic experiences using images and browser tricks, and ends with the arrival of table support in Netscape Navigator — giving true control over layout.

Cybercultural

The Internet - Mid 90's Web Culture

https://makertube.net/w/1nHZRS5mC6NhPkw6M4W8Lm

The Internet - Mid 90's Web Culture

PeerTube

The early Web had a quality that has been lost ever since: it was *simple*

Download #httpd , #netscape write some #html by hand and boom, the concept of a networked digital society is born.

It first started going pear shaped with #LAMP . The complexity of a full blown database was not justified for most use cases. As proven decades later by the popularity of #sqlite and #ssg approaches.

The final blow was when #bigtech got into the act. Immense complexity for the simplest things became a moat

#Mozilla revenant à la raison, j'y retourne bientôt. Ce n'est pas que je n'aimes pas #Brave ou #Vivaldi ou #Mullvad mais depuis le début j'ai préféré #Netscape et j'ai continué avec #Firefox. Ce n'est pas de la fidélité c'est du #Like .