General-purpose technologies (electricity, the internet, GPT) cause disruptions that propagate up from infrastructure to application to industry level, and organizations that don't think radically about how disruption will occur at each level and in their industry will be caught unprepared.
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Ian CraftEvidence Quote
“general purpose technology start at the infrastructure level...over time those disruptions move up a level from infrastructure to application to industry [38:12]”
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AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Work: Futurist Ian Beacraft Explains Why Jobs are Dead— Info-Tech Research GroupCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:07:29 AM
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