We are in an era of domain collapse — AlphaFold pattern will repeat across many fields starting now.

We are in an era of domain collapse — AlphaFold pattern will repeat across many fields starting now. | And we argue in this chapter, the lockin, that we're now in a phase of of history, of future history, where this is just going to start to happen over and over again across different fields where intelligence shifts from an artisal craft to a utility that just flows.

And we argue in this chapter, the lockin, that we're now in a phase of of history, of future history, where this is just going to start to happen over and over again across different fields where intelligence shifts from an artisal craft to a utility that just flows.

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