In 1926, an American engineer built a robot that could answer phone calls and execute commands remotely. In 2026, OpenClaw does the same thing, just from a chat app.

Generative AI feels revolutionary. But the core ideas behind today's tools are decades old, sometimes a century old. In this talk, I'll look at 100 years of AI and robotics history to show that many of today's breakthroughs are simply old ideas that finally became practical.

The ideas behind ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora are not new. They're just finally possible.

So what actually changed? This session isn't about hype. It's about perspective. Because once you see the pattern, today's AI stops looking like magic and starts looking like history repeating itself.