I know this might sound strange coming from someone who spends most of their waking hours thinking about artificial intelligence: I’ve stopped paying attention to Silicon Valley.
Not entirely, of course. I still read the headlines. I still watch the funding rounds balloon into numbers that stopped meaning anything to normal people years ago. I still see the parade of announcements, a new model here, a trillion-dollar valuation there, another founder promising that this release, this one, will finally change everything.
But somewhere along the way, I realized I was watching the wrong stage. The real revolution isn’t happening in the glass towers of Palo Alto or the podcast studios of San Francisco. It’s happening in places nobody is filming: the back office of a dental practice in Ohio, the two-person marketing agency in Austin, the family-owned logistics company that has been running the same clunky software since 2014.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE BY BENJAMIN BOHMAN IN THE FALL 2026 EDITION OF GAMING & LEISURE MAGAZINE.