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Everyone Used to Wear a Hat — What History Teaches Us About Agentic AI

The hat didn't disappear The hat didn't vanish because it lost its usefulness. It disappeared because the social context it represented ceased to exist. That story is more revealing than it initially seems — especially if you're trying to understand what agentic AI is about to do to the modern organisation.because it became useless. It disappeared because the social world it expressed stopped existing. That story is more instructive than it first appears — especially if you're trying to understand what agentic AI is about to do to the modern organisation.