As academia and industry, we have vested interests in dissemination of software in society. We explore a broader ecosystems enabling for industry and academia confluence. We explore the AI journey as a contemporary technology. We look at the nuances of how we as a society perceive technology. The tree and maze illustrate a dichotomy in software and systems infrastructure. They are essential ingredients in an ecosystem. Use cases include the rationalization of taxonomies/thesauri and cognitive biases. Eg. man-woman, snakes-ladders, import-export, left-right, train-test.