The Decentralization of the Real WorldIndustrial breakup

The same forces that broke central-server architectures are coming for centralized industry. Distributed manufacturing, micro-grids, vertical farming, local supply chains — the geopolitical shocks of the last decade made centralization a liability, and the technology to redistribute is finally catching up.

A future version of this page will be a piece of data-driven art — scroll-animated charts, 3D scenes, interactive data — built around this thesis. For now, the canonical essay is on the blog.