AI is still waiting for its VisiCalc moment - PCWorld
PushButton AI Team ·
AI is still waiting for its VisiCalc moment - PCWorld
AI adoption feels exactly like 1979 did for small business owners staring at the first personal computers.
Nobody knew what to do with them either.
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You're not behind. You're not tech-stupid. Yo
AI adoption feels exactly like 1979 did for small business owners staring at the first personal computers.
Nobody knew what to do with them either.
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You're not behind. You're not tech-stupid. You bought a tool that was sold as a solution but arrived without a problem it actually solved for your business. That's a sales failure, not your failure.
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Here's what that early PC era teaches us: computers sat unused until VisiCalc launched — the first spreadsheet. Suddenly, business owners had one specific thing they could do that saved them real time and real money. Adoption exploded overnight.
AI is in that same awkward middle phase right now. The technology exists. The killer application — the one that makes it obvious for your specific business — is still emerging for most industries.
That actually works in your favor. The pressure to act on everything is manufactured. The real move is finding your one VisiCalc: one workflow, one repetitive task, one bottleneck that AI can demonstrably improve this month.
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Start with a problem you already have, not a tool someone is selling. List your three most time-consuming weekly tasks. Pick the most repeatable one. That's your test case.
Thirty days. One problem. Measurable result.
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What's the AI tool your team bought but quietly stopped using — and what were you actually hoping it would fix?
