Back in 2000, everyone dismissed the concept of online commerce. Five years passed—nothing revolutionary. But fifteen years later? E-commerce had transformed society.

AI and robotics follow the same trajectory. Breakthroughs rarely happen on the timeline we expect. The gap between skepticism and mass adoption isn't measured in years—it's measured in how badly we underestimate the speed of compounding technological change.

The pattern repeats: mockery → doubt → gradual adoption → sudden ubiquity. We're already past the mockery stage.