“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” – Shakespeare’s Macbeth   The machines are coming…or have they already arrived? In the year 2000, artificial intelligence still seemed like a distant dream.  The tech revolution had begun but soon deflated when people realized the early tech startups weren’t really producing much economic value.  It was a quasi shell game that the market eventually squashed, and tech as an industry retreated into the spotlight behind the usual titans like banking, oil, and pharma. And then Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook entered the picture, and the true tech revolution began.  This has resulted in many changes to our way…