[[The future always disguises itself as the past]]
Every miracle material required people to ==stop seeing the world via the rearview mirror and start imagining the new one==. Carnegie looked at steel and saw city skylines. Lancashire mill owners looked at steam engines and saw factory floors free from rivers.
We are still in the waterwheel phase of AI, bolting chatbots onto workflows designed for humans. We need to stop asking AI to be merely our copilots. We need to imagine what knowledge work could look like when human organizations are reinforced with steel, when busywork is delegated to minds that never sleep.
Steel. Steam. Infinite minds. The next skyline is there, waiting for us to build it.
[[AI enables companies to truly scale and serve a completely new engine]]