Waldridge anticipated that networks would be ubiquitous (correct prediction) but failed to anticipate the specific form: the World Wide Web, centralized search (Google), and e-commerce (Amazon), which represent symbolic/search-based AI rather than multi-agent delegation he expected.
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Michael WaldridgeEvidence Quote
“I completely failed to anticipate the worldwide web or Amazon or any of that...I totally got that networks were going to be the future but I still didn't understand exactly what that future was going to look like”
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Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History— Johnathan BiCreated: 7/7/2026, 3:38:35 AM
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