Craig Jackson

For most of the last year, the digital world has been stuck in a “reactive” loop. You typed a prompt, an AI assistant spat out a reply, and the interaction ended. It was a standard chat-box experience—clunky, isolated, and frankly, a little dated. But while we were busy debating the merits of large language models, Google quietly performed a lobotomy on the old chatbot model and replaced it with something far more potent: a multimodal collaborator that can see, hear, and build in real-time. The “Text Box” era is officially over. We are transitioning from tools we “type into” to…