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Roy Amara said it in the 1970s. "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." Amara ran the Institute for the Future and was a Stanford computer scientist. He was talking about how humans process technology adoption curves. The observation is now called Amara's Law. It's one of the cleanest heuristics for any executive deciding what to fund, what to shelve, and what to prepare for. The short-run overestimate is the trap most companies fall into. Board deck slides claim the new technology "will transform the industry in 18 months." Twelve months later the transformation hasn't happened. Executives conclude the technology was hype and stop paying attention. That is exactly when the long-run curve kicks in. The historical examples are familiar: The internet: expectations peaked before viable business models and infrastructure matured. Mobile computing: the smartphone arrived before the full platform economy developed. Cloud computing: adoption lagged until security, connectivity, and operating models caught up. Electric vehicles: early projections moved faster than charging networks, supply chains, and consumer behavior. AI is moving through the same sequence. Current investment assumes a relatively fast conversion of computing capacity into enterprise productivity. But AI’s long-term value will depend on more than models and data centers. It will require clean data, redesigned processes, governance, workforce adoption, and integration into core operating systems. That is where boards should focus. The appropriate response to disappointing short-term returns is not abandonment. It is capital discipline combined with sustained capability development. Reduce spending that depends on immediate payoffs. Continue investing in the organizational foundations required for long-term adoption. The central lesson of Amara’s Law is not that technological forecasts are always wrong. It is that their timing usually is. Boards should ask two different questions: Are we spending too much for the next 18 months—and are we building enough for the next 10 years? Source: Roy Amara, Institute for the Future. #AmarasLaw #AIStrategy #TechnologyAdoption

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