Inductive Automation Predicted Industrial AI in 2019... were they right?

Back in 2019, Zack sat down at Inductive Automation's Folsom headquarters with three of the people building Ignition: Colby Clegg, Don Pearson, and Kevin McClusky. They talked about open standards, machine learning, closed-loop AI, and platform pricing. Nobody called it "agentic AI" yet. Nobody used the phrase "algorithm accountability." But they were describing exactly that.

This is a remaster. Nearly two hours of archive, compressed into 38 minutes of dense, unfiltered prediction. The kind that doesn't feel like prediction anymore.

📍 Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold Open: The Moments That Still Land
02:08 — Open vs. Closed: The Cycle That Never Ends
05:24 — How Ignition Started: Steve's Idea in 2003
07:00 — OT/IT Convergence and the Technology Bridge
09:19 — Sparkplug, MQTT, and the Eclipse Foundation
11:39 — Open Source: Why 90% of Your Idea Isn't Special
12:08 — AI in Manufacturing: Where It's Safe to Start
13:23 — Closed-Loop AI and the Liability No One Wants
18:05 — The Self-Driving Car Threshold for Industrial AI
19:35 — Gartner Hype Cycle: "We're Squarely in the Trough"
20:04 — The 10-Year-Old Who Doesn't Know What Wikipedia Is
21:13 — Mission-Driven Companies vs. Quarterly Return Machines
24:22 — Ignition's Final Mile Secret Sauce
25:00 — Mobile: The Technology You Should Already Have
28:18 — The Ignition Exchange and Ecosystem Velocity
31:54 — Closing: "If the Body Is Automation, AI Is the Brain"

🎙️ *Guests:*
Colby Clegg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colby-clegg-860460a/
Don Pearson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-b-pearson/
Kevin McClusky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmcclusky/

Inductive Automation: https://inductiveautomation.com

🎧 *The Zack Scriven Podcast:*
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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zack-scriven-podcast/id1387054490

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