I saw this author interviewed. There is so much information and technology, doubling exponentially at an increasingly faster rate, that in the very near future we will be unable to handle or keep up with it without AI.

The author says it best: "To express this another way, we won’t experience one hundred years of technological advance in the 21st century; we will witness on the order of 20,000 years of progress (again, when measured by the rate of progress in 2000), or about 1,000 times greater than what was achieved in the 20th century."