From the article: "...88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted...". That is still 1 out of every 10 islands in 2018 that have so far shrunk due to sea-level rise.
This line in the article sums up beautifully the desire for being an entrepreneur: "A path to avoid someone else’s bonehead business decision which kneecaps a company and executes my career."
And that is most likely what will happen but not before your hard-earned pension money has funded numerous failed AI ventures. Not too different from how fintech and crypto has played out.
Overseas remittances from family members in New Zealand and Australia play a big part in the economy. Also, Pitcairn Island used to have a stamp bureau selling stamps to overseas collectors.
The article does not mention that one major thing MS-DOS improved on was the filesystem. CP/M had no concept of a hierarchical filesystem, instead the filesystem was flat and only divided into a set of numbered user areas.