Inflection point of technologies: - [pneumatic tire] -> bicycle. - [battery, touch screens, high bandwidth networks] -> mobile phones - [transformer arch

Inflection point of technologies: - [pneumatic tire] -> bicycle. - [battery, touch screens, high bandwidth networks] -> mobile phones - [transformer architectures, massive datasets] —> “ai” as we know it today Such an interesting topic. I remember a lecture of an English literature course. The course theme was how creative writing can be inspired by different disciplines such as biblical studies, philosophy, language studies, anthropology (a broad list). In the last example the professor describes how language might have evolved in an “eruption” or “tear” (itself a figurative expression). One discipline (volcanography) captures a difficult idea in another discipline (anthropology). An example of the course’s theory that multidisciplinary study informs creative writing—and there is an eruption producing something new. Maybe something like David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”.