But if we have enough computing power, we might finally figure out if we exist only because we’re being watched or if we’re a very efficient set of coordinates in a vector database.
The manifest presence of AI is really just the another stage of the WWW-Operating System entanglement. We’ve moved from the internet in our OS to the internet becoming the OS.
And now humans are becoming the Operating System for Artificial Intelligence.
We've moved from Post-incident Investigation where we push the police to a crime that already happened to pre-incident Isolation where we pull the environment into a defensive state.
In the early 2000s, Apache Linux held over 60% of the server market.
The silent minority in power weren't the CEOs of the companies being hosted; they were the sysadmins who understood the .htaccess files and the kernel configurations.
If you controlled the server config, you controlled the flow of information. In 2026, as Nginx and Cloudflare take the lead, the power has simply shifted from the local geek to the infrastructure geek.
The evolution from individual desktops to RDMA memory pools is upon us.
The final pivot is likely those with Admin Root Access may replace traditional political power.
