Artificial Intelligence has been the central thread of countless sci-fi novels in the past century. Long before the first whispers of the Internet, there were forecasts of smart bots and intelligent machine servants who would help us in our every-day lives. After almost 60 years from the first airing of The Jetsons, today it is anything but unimaginable to forecast the creation of a real-life Rosie, the robot maid in the hit TV show, in the next few years. Since Y2K, there has been a 14X increase in the number of active AI start-ups. Through examining the history of the creation of the Internet and the Web, this current explosion in AI was quite anticipated. It is no longer a question of whether AI will revolutionize our very notions of being human and the limits to our capabilities, but whether we are ready for the perpetual paradigm shifts that will take place in the 21st Century.