The personal computer & the internet clicked for me because I saw them as personal enables, as endlessly flexible systems that we could gain mastery over & shape as we might.

But with AI? Your comparison to going to the moon feels apt. We're deep into the age of the hyper scalers, but AI has done far more to fill me with dread & make me think maybe Watson was right when he said:

> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers

This has none of the appeal of computing that drew me in & for decades fed my excitement.

As for breakthroughs, I have much doubts; there seems to be a great conflagration of material & energy being poured in. Maybe we can eek out some magnitudes of efficiency & cost, but those gains will be mostly realized & used by existing winners, and the scope and scale will only proportionately increase. Humanity will never catch up to the hyper-ai-ists.