Technology became power the moment it began redistributing authority.
The divergence that PwC attributes to unequal access to artificial intelligence is better explained by the rotation of whoever is directing the transformation — and the anchor report's own recipe worsens, in the short term, the very metric it measures.
The 2026 AI bubble doesn't measure overinvestment: Sequoia's $2.9 trillion gap reveals capital with quarters-long maturity financing decades-long adoption.
Technology and PowerPrecision notes
Sewn into the lining of a work jacket sold for $252 is a message from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar. The company's illegible power needed a surface — and found it in merchandise.
Some 100 species of birds — loons, gulls, puffins, petrels — can both fly and swim. Inspired by these natural aquatic aviators, engineers at MIT and EPFL have designed a robot that swims underwater, leaps from the surface, and flies — much like a diving bird.
Technology and PowerFoundational essays
The clash between Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman is not a debate about technology: it is the separation between the speed of infrastructure and the capacity of the regime that frames it.
Technology and PowerPrecision notes
When human judgement starts training the systems, intellectual work stops being a cumulative asset and becomes raw material — and the value that once thickened over time changes hands.
Technology and PowerFoundational essays
In the twenty-first century, military advantage is shifting towards the technological architecture that compresses the time between perception and decision.
Technology and PowerPrecision notes
Under bounded rationality, advantage lies not in knowing more, but in iterating decision cycles more quickly.
Knowledge is Powerful, Be Powerful.
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