How AI will make information akin to electricity

If you want to build an information system today, well, you need to build it and design it, code it, test it, maintain it, and so on. And although millions and billions of dollars are spent in information systems we often forget the reason why we need those information systems in the first place: to be able to do something else. Information is always the means not the end, an insight that often goes amiss in the huge investments that companies make in information systems. Going back to the comparison with electricity, it is as if every time a company needs something to do it needs to create it own electricity plant that is unique and fit for purpose. Indeed, it needs to build many electricity plants each powering a different operation, from marketing and sales, to manufacturing and logistics.