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From Capital vs. Labor to Acceleration vs. Preservation

For more than two centuries, modern politics was structured around an economic axis: who owns the factory?

The Left–Right divide emerged from the Industrial Revolution. The Left sought to redistribute power between labor and capital; the Right defended property, markets, and hierarchy. This axis endured because industrial society was stable: humans worked, machines amplified labor, and value flowed from production.

Artificial intelligence disrupts that equilibrium.

We are not simply witnessing partisan realignment. We are witnessing the emergence of a new political axis. The central conflict of the AI era will not be capital versus labor, but acceleration versus preservation: how fast we integrate machine intelligence into economic life, and what we choose to preserve of human agency along the way.

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Real intelligent behaviors necessarily lead to more trust.

Trust is evaporating everywhere in this digital era.

Forgot to bring your phone to work? You’d better go back home and pick it up, or you won’t be able to authenticate your 2FAs. Moving to another country? Better not cancel your phone number, or you’ll lose access to accounts requiring text verification. Are we living in a more secure and trustworthy society compared to decades ago? Not really. The reality is that you must bow to the digital overlord to prove that you are indeed yourself.

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Preserving our digital memory with a personalized AI twin could be the future.

Recently, I rediscovered my passion for photography after a decade-long hiatus of taking casual iPhone photos. My previous enthusiast camera, a Nikon D200 made in 2005, still sat quietly in my storage container. As I was deciding whether to invest in another camera for an upcoming trip to Rwanda, where I hoped to capture stunning wildlife images, I pondered the role of photography and personal storage, and how they might evolve in the future.

In today’s world, owning a traditional camera may seem outdated. Most people rely on their smartphones, which now boast high-resolution cameras and advanced AI algorithms for exceptional results. Over the past several decades, for most people cameras have shifted from being tools of artistic expression to lifelong recording devices. We capture meals at fancy restaurants and picturesque views on our trips. We hand our phones to strangers to take photos for us, without worrying about their photography skills. Personally, I have amassed over 50,000 photos on my phone, rarely revisiting them. They serve as a visual diary of my daily life.

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