In 2016 a machine learned intuition, and my last doubt about where this was going fell away.
In March 2016, AlphaGo beat world champion Lee Sedol at Go, a game long thought to require human intuition. That year I joined the board of January First. In July, Juno entered orbit around Jupiter to look beneath the planet's dense clouds.
In March 2016 a program called AlphaGo beat one of the greatest Go players alive, at a game everyone had insisted was too intuitive, too human, for a machine to master in our lifetimes. It did not just calculate. It played moves that stunned the masters, moves that looked like creativity.
That was the year I joined the board of January First, and the year my last real doubt about the direction of things fell away. If a machine could develop something that looked like intuition at Go, then everything I had spent thirty years around, since a program loading off cassette tape, was about to change again, faster than most people were ready for.
A year later I started eatOS, and I built it for the world I could now see coming, not the one we were standing in.