Otherwise, the infrastructure supporting humans will collapse.

If you want to have open-ended growth, you have to continuous cycles of paradigm-shifting innovations.

  • Geoffrey West, Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

Ex: Iron, Coal, Electricity, Computer, IT, AI

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