"We believe that the same way mobile payments leapfrogged credit cards in some markets, and mobile phones leapfrogged desktop computers in developing economies, AI too will (at least initially) leapfrog more legacy technologies that don’t have a “good enough” palliative (I mean alternative) in place."

>Leapfrogging by falling behind isn't the great example the article wants it to be.

It doesn't really matter if you end up with a better solution anyway, it's really the point of the article.