But there's a lot of moving pieces to a very substantial world-changing event, and this is just the pretext. What's next? Something that @balajis has also been hinting at – the rise of the network state. But how it's going to happen is going to be much like my morning routine: messy and chaotic.

Things on a parallel track are accelerating with absurd momentum. AI has dramatically overshot human performance. It can hear you now. It can respond to you now. It can see you now. And it knows you now. The only thing these functions can't do, is talk to one another. 

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