The History of AI in a Nutshell

Almost everyone knows this saying: "history repeats itself." It's amazing how true that statement is, especially when it comes to technology. We like to think that every new decade in the field of tech makes the previous decade completely obsolete. When we're dealing with the minutiae of version updates and patches we can sometimes see the past with tinted glasses. There's a great quote by Eleanor Roosevelt that expands on the idea of a continuous history, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."