10/ The biggest misconception?
People think robots will arrive all at once.
They won't.
They'll enter industries quietly, one task at a time.
Just like software did.
And one day we'll look back and wonder how we ever worked without them.
The age of physical AI has begun.
Everyone asks: "Will robots take our jobs?"
Wrong question.
The real question is:
Which industries will robots transform first?
The answer has less to do with technology—and more to do with economics.
A thread 🧵
9/ The pattern is clear:
Robots go where work is:
• Repetitive
• Physically demanding
• Dangerous
• Difficult to staff
Not where creativity, empathy, and judgment matter most.
The AI era won't just need better models—it will need infrastructure for autonomous agents.
Payments. Identity. Coordination. Data ownership.
That's where $NEAR is making its bet.
"AI gave machines a voice. Robotics will give them hands." The next technological revolution won't happen on our screens. It will happen in the physical world
AI gave machines the ability to think.
Robotics is giving them the ability to act.
As sensors, compute, and foundation models converge, intelligence is leaving the screen and entering the physical world.
The implications for labor, productivity, and geopolitics will be profound.
10/ The biggest risk isn't the crash itself.
It's believing you're living through the first bubble in history.
Because whenever people say:
"This time is different."
History usually replies:
"No, it isn't."
Everyone thinks: "This time is different."
History says otherwise.
A thread on the biggest economic crashes ever—and the warning signs they all shared 🧵