Fast Company AI

The PC era is dying. Welcome to the collective computer era

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The personal computer era is ending as AI transforms computing into a collective service. With artificial intelligence now available as a measured utility and systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude becoming mainstream, personal computing is shifting toward shared, AI-powered infrastructure. This fundamental change raises questions about how we'll interact with technology when individual devices give way to collective computational resources.