The passive internet era is ending. Search is becoming analog. Typing and searching feels primitive compared to describing what you want and getting it instantly tailored for you. The active internet era is emerging and prompting is its atomic unit. Prompt to create, to learn, to connect, and to consume. What "search" was to the 2000s, "prompt" will be to the next decade.

On social media, historically 90% of users lurk, 9% engage, and 1% create. Prompting is about to blow up that ratio because it is now far easier to create. The passive internet user is becoming an active participant whether they realize it or not.

Here are just a few examples of how prompting is making its way into our daily lives:

Prompting Grok on X is arguably the first AI natively integrated at scale into the social feed. Grok is an entirely new "participant" that has spawned tens of millions of tags at this point. Even in this small sample size we can see a shift in user behaviors.

Education is going to be one of the biggest categories disrupted. Prompting is the learning. The skill being trained isn't how to use AI rather it is the critical thinking. The prompt is the exercise. There will be many other vectors through which education will become more gamified.

This is a Roblox garage where you prompt a vehicle into existence. Players aren't just playing games anymore, they're prompting them into being.

Closing thoughts

Slowly but surely "prompting" will make its way into many facets of our lives.

We went from "search" to "prompt". Big transitions typically lead to entirely new categories of products, behaviors, and companies. We are just scratching the surface of what prompting can lead to. Crypto is in dire need of more experimentation and I anticipate this verb will help us on the path to getting there.