If you are at all thinking about AI you should check out Kevin Kelly: http://kk.org/books/the-inevitable/
he makes the analogy with electrification: Whole industries were created by simply taking an existing process and adding electricity.
His view is that with AI whole industries will be created by taking an existing process or technology and add AI et voila!
Although he does not particularly like the term AI, he calls it smartness and "cognification"
Interview and short article here
http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/03/artificial-cognification-future-everything-will-smart-kevin-kelly/