When Tim Berners-Lee developed the foundations of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, he envisioned an information-sharing system that would democratize knowledge and connect resources worldwide.
What he couldn’t have anticipated was how this information layer would become the essential catalyst for a completely different technological revolution three decades later: artificial intelligence.
This phenomenon, where one technological supercycle inadvertently creates the conditions necessary for the next, can be referred to as “The Catalyst Effect.”
It demonstrates how technology evolution rarely follows a linear path but instead develops through unexpected interconnections between seemingly unrelated innovations.
