28 June

I genuinely believe many if not most are simply unaware we’re living through a new Industrial Revolution. That thing that transformed civilisation itself a few hundred years ago, completely upending all comfortable habits and truths. Creating the modern lives we enjoy that earlier times in history would not have believed were possible. Instead because of social media they’re jumping from one fake viral outrage to the next, often focused on OUR Industrial Revolution, in energy and AI. Everything is personal to social media kidults, it’s all about how much we ‘like’ this or that person. Here’s the thing. The early beneficiaries of the first Industrial Revolution, the rapacious ‘capitalists’, all quickly faded from view and influence. The technology and the revolution went on without them, it cast them aside. Today’s billionaire entrepreneurs will be tomorrow’s history lesson nobody reads. They’re history’s useful idiots, nothing more. The revolution is not about interpersonal likes, about human status rivalries. History doesn’t give a shit about any of that.