'The Great Inversion': Why one innovation theorist says technology is no longer adapting to us — we're adapting to it
THE SO WHAT
If you assume users will keep reshaping themselves around tools, you overfit to today's behavior and miss the next interface shift. Treat AI-era UX as a negotiation — build for how people actually think and decide, not just for what current funnels can coerce.
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