@itsolelehmann: it's so cool reading about the industrial revolution and seeing the parallels to the AI revolution today. you could lit…

it's so cool reading about the industrial revolution and seeing the parallels to the AI revolution today. you could literally just swap a few words and the whole thing reads like an AI article in 2026: a powerful new technology arrives. for the first time, machines can do the physical work that used to need human hands. everyone rushes to build with it. factories and mills go up in every town. the capital expenditure on the buildout is staggering. by 1897 the railroads are worth $10.6 billion, nine times the entire national debt, bankrolled by Wall Street and waves of outside investors. the biggest fortunes go to whoever owns the infrastructure it all runs on: the railroads, the oil refineries, the steel mills. men like Rockefeller and Carnegie control that infrastructure. every business in the country has to pay to use it. they become the richest people on earth. the public is terrified. workers smash the machines in the streets, convinced the technology will take their jobs. critics warn it will hollow out society. and through all of it, the machines are doing one thing: automating physical work. the lifting, weaving, and hauling that used to take human muscle. one machine does the work of hundreds of people. the AI Revolution: a powerful new technology arrives. for the first time, machines can do the cognitive work that used to need a trained human mind. everyone rushes to build with it. new apps and startups launch every day. the capital expenditure on the buildout is staggering. the hyperscalers will spend around $600 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, around 2% of the entire US GDP, bankrolled by their own profits and a fast-growing pile of debt. the biggest fortunes go to whoever owns the infrastructure it all runs on: the chips and the data centers. companies like Nvidia and Google control that infrastructure. every AI product in the world has to pay to use it. they become the most valuable companies on earth. the public is terrified. people protest AI and demand it be paused, convinced the technology will take their jobs. critics warn it will hollow out society. and through all of it, the machines are doing one thing: automating cognitive work. the writing, coding, and analysis that used to take a trained mind. one model does the work of hundreds of people. its the same story. except last time the machines came for our hands, this time they're coming for our heads...