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Thin, horizontal, enabling layers

 Along with electricity, Jeff Bezos identifies AI as a horizontal enabling layer.

Other notables from his TED talk

The Electricity Metaphor for the Web's Future


"The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the lightbulb... They were really thinking about.. they weren't thinking about putting electricity into the home, they were putting lighting into the home. And but really it got the electricity.."

"They both broadly decentralize at one level by being increasingly centralized at a different level. " - Byrne Hobart on similarities between AWS and electricity.

Another line in the article piqued me about the side effects of pre-industrial advances of naval technology aka one step close to globalisation. Its sort of like breaking down the Chestertons fence of natural geographic limitations or immunity bounds.

Recursive invention.

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