The $106 Trillion Classroom
The world’s infrastructure needs offer students a practical direction: learn how physical systems work, then use AI to improve a measurable part of the work. … readThe $106 Trillion Classroom
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When Intelligence Comes Off an Assembly Line: Eight Predictions
Nina Schick says we are turning sand into non-biological intelligence. Here are eight predictions for what happens when the scarcest thing a civilization ever had becomes a manufactured good. … readWhen Intelligence Comes Off an Assembly Line: Eight Predictions
Buy Low, Use High
Usage credits at OpenAI and Anthropic expire in a year, cannot be transferred, and are priced when you spend them, not when you buy them. Every property of a financial asset has been engineered out. What is left is a better asset: one whose only exit is turning it into something. … readBuy Low, Use High
Your Stack Does That
“There’s an app for that” was trademarked as a retail-store slogan, and that was the whole era: a product, a store, a bill. The next era’s slogan has no store in it — your stack does that — and it applies to a corporation exactly the way it applies to you. … readYour Stack Does That
Electricity Is How Intelligence Touches Matter
The second electrification is not the whole revolution. It is the physical subdomain of intellification: the conversion of sensing, prediction, and decision into action in the world. … readElectricity Is How Intelligence Touches Matter
The Archivist
Keeping a record of what your business believes was never a discipline problem. It was a cost problem, and the cost just fell by three orders of magnitude. You do not file the knowledge. You give the job its own motor. … readThe Archivist
Intellification
Electrification did not pay off when factories bought electric motors. It paid off decades later, when they stopped bolting motors onto the old line shafts and redesigned the building. Software is at exactly that moment now. … readIntellification
The Pix Principle: Why Artificial Intelligence Will Become Invisible
Brazil built a payment system that never asked to be a destination, and in five years it became part of the environment. Artificial intelligence is on the same path. … readThe Pix Principle: Why Artificial Intelligence Will Become Invisible