Do you happen to remember when James Cameron talked about why the second Avatar movie took so long - because the technology wasn't ready yet?
Avatar 2: Something About Water, a highly successful movie about blue people living in water (sorry, I never saw either of the Avatar movies), took a really long time to make.
Why? Because as director James Cameron (also the Titanic guy) described it, he had a vision in his head for what he though the movie should look like, but the technology of the day just wasn't up to the task of making underwater blue people look as realistic as he thought they should.
So he waited. And then the technology (it wasn't NFTs - I already checked) became available. And James Cameron was able to make his movie about underwater blue people and a lot of people went to see it in the theaters and he was able to make enough money to take himself out for a nice dinner.
What the hell does this have to do with anything, exactly?
Well, have you ever been held back from achieving personal or business goals because the tech just wasn't ready?
Since it looks like the (generative) AI hype machine isn't cooling down anytime soon, let's lean into this a little.
Rather than trying to find new problems to fit the thousands of new "AI-enabled" or "AI-driven" solutions that are inundating the landscape, are there any initiatives or even pet projects that you struggled to implement or get value out of because the tech wasn't there yet?
Could it be that you had the right vision, but you were too far ahead of the technology curve?
Maybe this could be your opportunity to dust off some of those shelved projects, cut through the AI hype, and see where you might leverage the incredible power of some of the REAL and AVAILABLE new technologies to get those flywheels going again?
I see so much opportunity to go back and apply modern technology and knowledge to past concepts and ideas to bring them new life and capture value that was once thought to be lost.
Unlike the Titanic, those may not be sunk costs after all.
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