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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Lists Bookmarks Communities Profile More Post Aditya Mehta @ady_mehtaa Article See new posts Conversation Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds 5 29 174 26K Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds. If history teaches us anything, those who master the material define the era. Left: teenage Andrew Carnegie and his younger brother. Right: Pittsburg steel factories during the Glided Age. In the 1850s, Andrew Carnegie ran through muddy Pittsburgh streets as a telegraph boy. Six in ten Americans were farmers. Within two generations, Carnegie and his peers forged the modern world. Horses gave way to railroads, candlelight to electricity, iron to steel. Since then, work shifted from factories to offices. Today I run a software company in San Francisc

@ivanhzhao: Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds. If history teaches us anything, those who master the material define the era. Left: teenage Andrew Carnegie and his younger brother. Right: Pittsburg steel factories during the Glided Age. In the 1850s, Andrew Carnegie ran through muddy Pittsburgh streets as a telegraph boy. Six in ten Americans were farmers. Within two generations, Carnegie and his peers forged the modern world. Horses gave way

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