Founder of Israel Smart Cities Institutue (ISCI), Pasher Management Consulting, Research & Training & Status Management Magazine. PhD in Media Ecology from NYU.
Elon Musk: ”I think there are great things in every culture. We don’t want the German culture to disappear. We don’t want French culture to disappear. We don’t want Korean culture to disappear, or Japan, or America, or anywhere.
I think we should be very cautious about having some sort of global mixing pot, because every place will be the same, and there won’t be any unique cultures in the world. Which I think would make the world worse.
So I think we need to preserve these country cultures, and that’s the future that I think is better. I think that most people would agree is better. We shouldn’t have cultures disappear.
And currently, based on the current birth rates and the sort of so-called multiculturalism and globalism, what we’re actually seeing is the dilution of individual cultures and the destruction and death of individual cultures, which I think is terrible for the future.”
Larry Ellison just said something that landed way too quietly.
Ellison: “It’s the largest, fastest-growing business in human history. Bigger than the railroads, bigger than the Industrial Revolution.”
He wasn’t speculating.
He said it the way someone talks about the weather.
Flat. Measured. Already certain.
That tone is the tell.
The people building this aren’t debating whether it’s real.
They’re spending billions because they already know what they’re sitting on.
Every revolution before this one built physical things.
Rail. Steel. Wire. Engines.
Objects you could see and touch and shut down if you needed to.
This one is building something you can’t touch.
The ability to think.
Not a tool. Not a platform.
The thing that designs all of them.
Railroads moved freight.
Factories assembled products.
AI replaces the mind that engineered both.
Every empire in history was built on controlling a scarce resource.
Roads. Seas. Oil. Capital.
The next century belongs to whoever controls intelligence itself.
But there’s one thing every previous revolution had that this one doesn’t.
A speed limit.
You can only lay so much track. Build so many factories. Drill so many wells.
Intelligence has no ceiling.
Once it gets good enough to improve itself, the curve doesn’t flatten.
It goes vertical.
Ellison called it a whole new world dawning.
I think he’s being polite.
Every revolution before this one needed people to build it.
This is the first one that won’t need people to finish it.
Jensen Huang just told the world how America wins the AI race.
Huang: “In the absence of a better choice, you’ll take the only choice you have. How is that illogical? It’s so logical.”
He’s not talking about chips.
He’s talking about inevitability.
Nvidia doesn’t win because they make the best GPU.
They win because they built the entire world around it.
CUDA. The developer ecosystem. The software stack.
The infrastructure every serious AI company on earth depends on.
The chip is the entry point.
The ecosystem is the lock.
Huang: “It’s better because it’s easier to program. We have a better ecosystem.”
Hardware is replaceable.
Ecosystems are not.
You can build a competing chip.
You cannot rebuild a decade of developer muscle memory overnight.
You cannot replicate millions of engineers who think in CUDA.
You cannot copy a software stack that has become the native language of artificial intelligence.
This is not a product moat.
This is a civilizational moat.
And he knows exactly what that means.
Huang: “We get the benefit of American technology leadership. As those AI models diffuse out into the rest of the world, the American tech stack is therefore the best for it.”
Every AI model trained on Nvidia hardware carries American infrastructure in its DNA.
Every country that adopts these models is building on American soil. Digitally.
Every developer who learns this stack enters an ecosystem they will never leave.
This is not competition.
This is gravity.
Rome built roads.
Britain built railways.
America built the compute stack.
The empire that builds the infrastructure the world runs on doesn’t need to conquer.
The world comes to it. Voluntarily.
Jensen didn’t describe a business strategy.
He described the most elegant form of hegemony ever built.
One where the occupied don’t realize they’re occupied.
Because they chose it.
And as he said.
It was logical.