Andreas Ramos saw the Internet coming. Here is what he sees now.

Andreas Ramos wrote this preface in September 2025 for "Get Found by AI". He wrote it from Palo Alto, where he has taught and advised for decades. When someone who lived the 1995 Internet boom from the inside tells you that what is happening today is of the same nature, it is not a metaphor. It is a practitioner's observation.

We are publishing it here because it says, better than we ever could, why Schneider AI exists.

The Preface

Yes, once again, things are changing. Take a good look around you and try to remember what you see. Everything around you will change. That happened 30 years ago and it's happening now again.

What changed back then? This was life in San Francisco in 1992:

6:30 AM: A Sony radio alarm clock buzzes and switches to KCBS 740 AM radio with traffic and weather.

7:00 AM: Mark and Susan sit in their kitchen and read the newspaper that had been delivered to their doorstep. They look at the business section, sports news, and check the upcoming movies for the weekend. The rest of the newspaper is local news.

8:00 AM: They get in their car. On the passenger seat is the Thomas Guide city map. On the way, they stop for gasoline.

9:00 AM: Susan arrives at her law firm. She has a desktop DOS computer, an office telephone with blinking lights, and stacks of case files. She prepares for meetings by printing onto transparent plastic sheets for an overhead projector. Susan will spend the rest of the day in the law firm's library for legal research, which means finding books on shelves. Mark walks to his office, where he may find as many as six faxes from the East Coast. It'll take him most of the day to send replies. Two weeks ago, he got a fax from Germany, but nobody in the office could read German.

11:30 AM: Mark calls Susan's desk phone at the law firm. She isn't at her desk, so he leaves a message with the firm's receptionist.

3:00 PM: Mark's beeper on his belt goes off. It's a personal call, so he walks to a payphone at the street corner and uses a coin to call. Maybe it was a call from a company. He mailed his paper resume to them three weeks ago.

5:00 PM: Mark and Susan head home but first stop at Tower Records, where they find R.E.M.'s new vinyl album. They also stop at Blockbuster to rent a video on VHS cassette tape. They must remember to rewind it before returning it to avoid an extra fee.

5:30 PM: Mark and Susan arrive home. They click the answering machine to listen to tape messages. Jim and Helen left a message to invite them for dinner on Friday. Mark sits on the couch and starts reading his paperback novel. Nothing distracts him.

6:30 PM: After dinner, they watch the TV evening news and saw there had been a big fire that morning in Oakland.

7:00 PM: They pop the VHS tape into the VCR and watch the film without interruption from emails, messages, cell phones, alerts, work emails, or social media.

The 1995 Dotcom Boom

The 1995 Dotcom Boom broke all of that. Emails and messages from Germany, France, Denmark, China, and India. Click to see a translation. Email, news, music, movies, social media, and computer games on the web. Smart phones with free calling worldwide. A vast network of Twitter and LinkedIn friends and coworkers whom they'll never meet.

2028: AI happened

It's 2028. AI happened. Susan and Mark WFH.

As VP of Legal Research, Susan manages her team of some forty or fifty AI agents (she stopped counting), all of which she wrote herself. She creates new AI agents as needed. Mark built a dataset research company. It searches 45 million datasets to find the right ones for clients. He lays on the sofa, using his smart glasses to talk with his main AI. It notifies him of a new opportunity so he begins to work with his AI to develop a strategy for his team of three people, each of whom uses hundreds of AI agents to manage finance, marketing, legal, accounting, and other business functions. Nvidia calculates the A2A (agent to agent) economy is seven times larger than B2B and B2C combined. A2A has 164.87 trillion agents and is growing at 12.43% per week.

Susan also uses twelve personal AI agents that find relevant products, negotiate prices, and arrange payments. Mark's AI phone screen has an AI-generated video of him and Susan hiking with their dog. No apps. All gone. Search engines? Also gone. Oh, sure, some legacy websites still exist; Mark and Susan laugh at the old timers.

A message from Mark's New Projects agent pops up to tell him a company in Argentina wants him to build a dataset analysis agent and they offer 33% of the first-year revenues. He tells his AI to continue negotiations.

In the evening, Susan and Mark link their smart glasses to watch a shared movie that appears in their visual field as a large screen. Before the movie starts, they replace the movie's actors with their favorite actors and ask the AI to add a few musical numbers.

All of this, and more, is being built now. So look around you before it all goes away.

The Author

Andreas Ramos - Professor of Digital Marketing and Artificial Intelligence. Author of 22 books on Digital Marketing and SEO. California Science and Technology University.

Palo Alto, September 1, 2025