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title: Quote of the Month  |  Seth Godin on AI
description: Seth Godin quote on AI
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# [Quote of the Month  |  Seth Godin on AI](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/quote-seth-godin)

 Written by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) | Apr 1, 2024 7:30:08 PM

Quote of the Month: Seth Godin on AI

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> In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly instant messaging like the telegraph could possibly be good for.*
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> *Twenty years later, it was obvious.*
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> *When I first saw Prodigy in 1986, I saw that the consumer internet would have many possibilities, but I didn’t have the guts to ask what I was missing. “In 40 years, for what purposes will it be useful” would have been a productive way to think about the change that was happening.*
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> *AI is as big a change as the internet, perhaps more so. And in just a few years, people will wonder why we weren’t wondering better.*  
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> ---Seth Godin - "[For What Purpose Will it be Useful?](https://seths.blog/2024/03/for-what-purposes-will-it-be-useful/)"
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