The Concorde burned one ton of fuel per passenger to cross the Atlantic. One hundred seats. Three and a half hours. Mach 2. The most advanced commercial aircraft ever built — and every engineer who saw it wanted to believe it was the future. The 747 did the same crossing in seven hours. Four hundred seats. A quarter of the fuel per passenger. No afterburners. No sonic boom. No government subsidies keeping it alive. ...
I see people everywhere anxious about whether AI will disrupt their jobs, their industries, their lives. I’ve always approached this with calm. Not indifference—calm. The future rarely sends advance notice, but it is always arriving. This isn’t news. It’s the human condition. A few years ago, I attended a keynote by Michio Kaku where he framed—perfectly, for me—the relationship between humanity and technological change. What follows is my version. I can’t claim novelty, and I’m not a domain expert in sociology or economics. I’m an infrastructure builder observing the same pattern from the inside. ...