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AI and the future of knowledge work

🌳 Published Oct 4, 2026

Around 1900, a factory that wanted electricity had to make it. Power was a capability you built in-house, with your own generators, your own plant, and your own staff to run it; as late as 1909, 64 percent of the electric motor capacity in US manufacturing still ran on power generated on site.