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Tractor and Silo
2026
Be Your Own Historian
One conviction, held since 2012, and what it predicts. In a world where intelligence is cheap and getting cheaper, the only thing that stays scarce is the record of a particular life.
The Memex Has Been Waiting 80 Years for This Moment
Vannevar Bush described the memex in July 1945. It took 80 years to become buildable, because it required two things that didn't coexist until now: cheap private AI, and the conviction that data ownership is the last real moat.