From Content to IP, AI, ASI — What on Earth Is This!
In the 1980s, when the word “content” was beginning to spread, I worked for a time at Company F, a personal computer maker. Hardware alone was becoming hard to profit from, and I experienced on the ground the mood in which value was shifting toward the software that ran on PCs (personal computers) and the information that flowed through them. It was said that the word “content” was born at IBM, the giant of the PC industry in those days, and spread from there. ...