Topic: industrial revolution

10 chunks · 9 episodes

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industrial revolution appears in 10 chunks across 9 episodes, from 2024-09-03 to 2026-02-16.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 11/4/25 (2025-11-04), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with qualitative nuance, quantitative scale, and abundant cognitive labor, while by chunk count it sits between hive mind and infinite difference; its yearly rank moved from #163 in 2024 to #76 in 2026.

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Range2024-09-03 to 2026-02-16Mean1.1 per episodePeak2 on 2025-11-04

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In the last century or two we've gotten used to abundant mechanical labor.

from Bits and Bobs 2/16/26 · 2026-02-16

...abor. Now we have abundant cognitive labor. This will change even more than the Industrial Revolution did. Infinite software is downstream of cognitive labor being abundant. But it's just the most obvious, immediate outcome. There will be tons of othe...

When the cost of inputs decreases by an order of magnitude, it leads to a cambrian explosion.

from Bits and Bobs 1/19/26 · 2026-01-19

...of that variation is required to figure out what is worth standardizing on. The industrial revolution of software is creating an explosion of bespoke things. So the explosion is the immaturity of the space more than fundamentals of LLMs.

Chris Loy argues we're about to see the industrial revolution of software.

from Bits and Bobs 1/6/26 · 2026-01-06

Chris Loy argues we're about to see the industrial revolution of software. On the one hand, the idea that we've been at the hand-crafted / high friction style of software to date does resonate. But unlike in the...

Everything before the Industrial Revolution was fundamentally resonant by default.

from Bits and Bobs 12/8/25 · 2025-12-08

Everything before the Industrial Revolution was fundamentally resonant by default. Hollowness only comes from an industrial process that is scaled.

Before the Industrial Revolution only rich people could have nice things and everything was bespoke.

from Bits and Bobs 11/4/25 · 2025-11-04

Before the Industrial Revolution only rich people could have nice things and everything was bespoke. After the first Industrial Revolution everyone could have good things that are ma...

For the Industrial Revolution to be sustainable for humans we had to invent the weekend.

from Bits and Bobs 11/4/25 · 2025-11-04

For the Industrial Revolution to be sustainable for humans we had to invent the weekend. Before the Industrial Revolution there was much more rest time. The Industrial Revolution ...

Reid Hoffman: "AI is the cognitive industrial revolution."

from Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 · 2025-10-13

Reid Hoffman: "AI is the cognitive industrial revolution." Reid splits perspectives on AI into four buckets: Doomer - AGI will ruin humanity and must be stopped at all costs. Zoomer - AGI or bust. Foot on t...

Modernity and resonance have been in tension since the industrial revolution.

from Bits and Bobs 8/11/25 · 2025-08-11

Modernity and resonance have been in tension since the industrial revolution. But they don't have to be! To get scale, you need to quantize, and to quantize you need to distill a rich, multi-dimensional resonant nuance down to...

Is AI more like the Industrial Revolution or the invention of literacy?

from Bits and Bobs 6/23/25 · 2025-06-23

Is AI more like the Industrial Revolution or the invention of literacy? The latter shaped our thoughts in new ways not possible before. Entire religions were founded based on the power of the...

An insightful tweet from Ethan Mollick:

from Bits and Bobs 9/3/24 · 2024-09-03

...ful tweet from Ethan Mollick: "It wasn't the steam engine alone that caused the Industrial Revolution. It was the thousands of specific machines invented by skilled craftsmen that used steam to augment or do existing work that created the Revolution A...