I wouldn’t call canals or railroads fads though. Canals were the main route of inland transportation for a half century and railroads were for a century.
They were transformative infrastructure that laid the groundwork for later forms of infrastructure. Either AI isn’t that and this analogy falls apart or AI is that and we should be worried about whatever it’s laying the groundwork for.
Yeah, every bubble will be followed by adjustments. In my case, the town west of me has three rarely used village train stops. There’s a proposal to close them all in favor of a large park and ride at the edge of my town. That’ll make three heavily used stops for us and that other town can go fck itself (wealthy town, no highways, no buses, don’t use trains, no affordable housing)
When the datacenters go bust, we do t have much land so it’ll be bulldozed for office buildings
Trains? What are you talking about. Country is full of rarely-stopped-at train stations. Cars are the future!
The message is that AI will last only for as long as it takes for rich idiots to find a new fad.
I wouldn’t call canals or railroads fads though. Canals were the main route of inland transportation for a half century and railroads were for a century.
They were transformative infrastructure that laid the groundwork for later forms of infrastructure. Either AI isn’t that and this analogy falls apart or AI is that and we should be worried about whatever it’s laying the groundwork for.
Yeah, every bubble will be followed by adjustments. In my case, the town west of me has three rarely used village train stops. There’s a proposal to close them all in favor of a large park and ride at the edge of my town. That’ll make three heavily used stops for us and that other town can go fck itself (wealthy town, no highways, no buses, don’t use trains, no affordable housing)
When the datacenters go bust, we do t have much land so it’ll be bulldozed for office buildings