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Brennan said the digital domain exploded in the 1990s with the internet and has profoundly changed intelligence work.

“the digital domain basically exploded in the 1990s, you know, with the internet and and everything that's out there now.”

John Brennan · 227. Retired CIA Director John Brennan: Why modernization is ‘never over’, 0:36:40

1990s

Nigel Vaz says AI is reshaping how businesses create and deliver value, much as the internet did in the 1990s.

“where AI has been talked about as a technological trend, but it fundamentally is reshaping how businesses create and deliver value, much like the internet did i in the 90s.”

Nigel Vaz · Strategy Summit 2026: Why AI Transformation Needs a Human Touch, 0:02:57

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Jordan Peterson claims about 30 percent of the internet is pornography and that a huge amount of internet traffic is outright criminal.

“About 30% of the internet is pornography. A huge amount of internet traffic is outright criminal, and there's a penumbra around that.”

Jordan Peterson · #448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning, 1:50:58

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Patel says modern AI models were possible because petabytes of public internet data were available for training.

“we had petabytes and petabytes of publicly available data on the internet that you could use to train these models”

Jeetu Patel · Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel, 0:06:57

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Choudary says the internet cut the value of magicians' tricks because it let people expose and spread secrets cheaply.

“when the internet came, ca- you know, uh, happened, um, the value of a magician's skills went down dramatically”

Sangeet Paul Choudary · Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: Fortune 500 CEO Advisor Explains | CXOTalk #900, 0:54:20

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Stankey says the internet took about 25 years to change business models and that AI will probably do the same in half the time.

“if we took us twenty five years to get to where we are on the dawn of the Internet and how it's changed our business models”

John Stankey · AT&T CEO: Connecting the Future, Embracing AI and Driving Cultural Change, 0:35:01

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Stefan Zima compared the current AI period to the early internet, which was also an open, loosely governed field when it appeared.

“The internet was also a quite a open uh field at the beginning when it came out.”

Stefan Zima · AI Content Governance Inside a Regulated Bank - with Stefan Zima of Raiffeisen Bank International AG, 0:10:18