Forbes November 24, 2025
A decade ago, artificial intelligence was still something we mostly thought of as science fiction. First, there was machine learning, with its rudimentary propositions of data fitting, non-deterministic outcomes and recognizable algorithms. Before that, there was the cloud.
Cloud computing became a buzzword in the era of big data, before computers learned to think, when having larger data sets already allowed us to start mining for what was often then called “business intelligence.” You could make workflows more efficient, store giant volumes of data, and get dynamic, on-demand services though the Internet. The cloud was born.
Now, as AI drives rapid change, as neural nets are doing more of our thinking for us, leadership teams are … pulling workloads back...







