In August 2025, Chip Block published a paper exploring how technology changes the world not through the technology itself, but through the new economic models it enables. This follow-up examines the responses and developments since that paper — and what they reveal about where the AI economic transformation is actually heading.
iPod-iTunes, Google-Adwords, ChatGPT-…? — A Follow-Up
A follow-up to the iPod-iTunes-ChatGPT paper, examining responses and new developments in the emerging AI economic model.