The columnist writes that new technologies often meet resistance from established interests, citing examples from ride-hailing, home-sharing and historical innovations from printing to railways. He describes the “Sputnik moment” as a shock from a rival that triggers major investment and rapid technological progress, citing the U.S. response to the Soviet Sputnik launch and China’s push after AlphaGo-era defeats. He says AI’s resurgence also marked such a moment and hopes Korea can create its own.

A new book titled \"In the Age of the AI Revolution, Sapiens\' Last Voyage\" by Kim Do-yeol (김도열) has been published by Cheongnyeon Seogwan. It revisits the history of technology revolutions from the first Industrial Revolution to artificial intelligence and presents answers, in narrative form, to the question of how humanity should respond in the AI era. The author argues that fear and backlash recur with innovation and says past survivors chose to understand and use technology rather than reject or blindly follow it.