“I’ve been teaching my kids to be entrepreneurs.” This is what an engineer father told me recently, since he is convinced that AI is getting rid of coders and engineers like himself.
There's a little bit of a "chicken or egg" issue here in the sense that younger generations see a very bleak immediate future. The AI revolution has coincided with an authoritarian regime. I can only imagine how terrifying it must feel to be a child of an asylum-seeker just trying to get through college, not know if their parents will still be around. And Trump is in the midst of an all-out assault on academia, so college educations may be in a state of flux.
Well said, Andrew. For policy insights linked to our sexuality and falling birth rates, you will be interested in "Sex and the 21st Century: AR-W/(P-I) x ATroc = Q" in 3 small volumes, all in their 4th edition on Amazon Kindle or paperback. 1 on sexuality and sex education. 2. on the new economics and politics of falling birth rates. 3 the new geopolitics including a way out for Palestine/Israel and an end to Putin;s War which i started 3 years ago and just sent to earlytips@washpost.com . It would sure help if it were on the front page in Alaska.
The Codex Amiatinus of 700 CE averaged 3 years a copy, the Gutenberg Bible 2 days average.
Three orders of magnitude difference in effort.
Supply Chain Planning took my team 6 months with SAP in 2000, but I used gpt-5 to write an emulation of full SAP Supply Chain with around 12 hours effort.
Same 3-orders of magnitude jump as the Gutenberg change.
Moderately complex model, four continents, three freight modes, hundreds of materials and vendors.
1000:1 productivity change.
IT departments (among many) at 4% attrition won’t be hiring for a decade.
I’m paid to be 3-5 years ahead of the curve on technology adoption.
It’s going to be very rough.
I’ve never seen anything like this in 45 years of work, and within historical knowledge of supply chain spanning 4000’years, pyramids to rack&stack computers.
Andrew - my team has working to bring Circular Manufacturing to the US, utilizing local renewable materials for paper/packaging, textiles & building materials.
The vision is for co-operative mills and property/housing. Ideally with spacious land and homes (as part of the benefit) in a planned community layout for members and employees.
Well planned communities integrated with this economic center fulfilling commodity products (AI can’t replace most of this work without very expensive robots) - to foster multi generational relationships, shared resources and the ability to simplify life - get off our devices and enjoy the simple beautiful moments in life. Being mindful of a healthier community, less trash, (no plastic?) less hamster wheel more balanced life and grow generational wealthy middle class. Self reliant development, expanding in rural or non metropolises.
We could replace 85Million trees harvested per year for paper with 400 wheat stalk zero waste pulp/paper mills (non toxic) as one example.
This circular cooperative mill model could be a sustainable means for USA to ensure self reliance, begin the 4th industrial era with efficient thoughtful supply chains.
We have sourced and identified key circular manufacturing supply lines - now seeking partners to join, integrate and scale wisely with operations and planning and market strategies.
There's a little bit of a "chicken or egg" issue here in the sense that younger generations see a very bleak immediate future. The AI revolution has coincided with an authoritarian regime. I can only imagine how terrifying it must feel to be a child of an asylum-seeker just trying to get through college, not know if their parents will still be around. And Trump is in the midst of an all-out assault on academia, so college educations may be in a state of flux.
Well said, Andrew. For policy insights linked to our sexuality and falling birth rates, you will be interested in "Sex and the 21st Century: AR-W/(P-I) x ATroc = Q" in 3 small volumes, all in their 4th edition on Amazon Kindle or paperback. 1 on sexuality and sex education. 2. on the new economics and politics of falling birth rates. 3 the new geopolitics including a way out for Palestine/Israel and an end to Putin;s War which i started 3 years ago and just sent to earlytips@washpost.com . It would sure help if it were on the front page in Alaska.
The Codex Amiatinus of 700 CE averaged 3 years a copy, the Gutenberg Bible 2 days average.
Three orders of magnitude difference in effort.
Supply Chain Planning took my team 6 months with SAP in 2000, but I used gpt-5 to write an emulation of full SAP Supply Chain with around 12 hours effort.
Same 3-orders of magnitude jump as the Gutenberg change.
Moderately complex model, four continents, three freight modes, hundreds of materials and vendors.
1000:1 productivity change.
IT departments (among many) at 4% attrition won’t be hiring for a decade.
I’m paid to be 3-5 years ahead of the curve on technology adoption.
It’s going to be very rough.
I’ve never seen anything like this in 45 years of work, and within historical knowledge of supply chain spanning 4000’years, pyramids to rack&stack computers.
Gutenberg inflection. 1000:1
Thank you for sharing - insightful
Andrew - my team has working to bring Circular Manufacturing to the US, utilizing local renewable materials for paper/packaging, textiles & building materials.
The vision is for co-operative mills and property/housing. Ideally with spacious land and homes (as part of the benefit) in a planned community layout for members and employees.
Well planned communities integrated with this economic center fulfilling commodity products (AI can’t replace most of this work without very expensive robots) - to foster multi generational relationships, shared resources and the ability to simplify life - get off our devices and enjoy the simple beautiful moments in life. Being mindful of a healthier community, less trash, (no plastic?) less hamster wheel more balanced life and grow generational wealthy middle class. Self reliant development, expanding in rural or non metropolises.
We could replace 85Million trees harvested per year for paper with 400 wheat stalk zero waste pulp/paper mills (non toxic) as one example.
This circular cooperative mill model could be a sustainable means for USA to ensure self reliance, begin the 4th industrial era with efficient thoughtful supply chains.
We have sourced and identified key circular manufacturing supply lines - now seeking partners to join, integrate and scale wisely with operations and planning and market strategies.