Gap between AI-paced world and legacy world will grow really wide - maybe forever.

Gap between AI-paced world and legacy world will grow really wide - maybe forever. | the gap between the two worlds is going to get really, really wide for quite a while, maybe forever, but certainly for quite a while, just because the pace of change is so much higher over here

the gap between the two worlds is going to get really, really wide for quite a while, maybe forever, but certainly for quite a while, just because the pace of change is so much higher over here

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  "context": "the gap between the two worlds is going to get really, really wide for quite a while, maybe forever, but certainly for quite a while, just because the pace of change is so much higher over here, and the people experiencing that pace of change, they never go back.",
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      "label": "International AI-attributable growth divergence formally identified",
      "notes": "HIT — CEA paper title is literally 'Great Divergence'.",
      "source": "CEA Jan 2026 'Artificial Intelligence and the Great Divergence' white paper",
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      "label": "Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips.",
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      "label": "Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon.",
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      "label": "Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025).",
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      "label": "Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) a",
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      "label": "AI productivity capture concentrates in top quintile of firms",
      "notes": "HIT — PwC 2026 study directly confirms widening AI-leader vs. laggard gap.",
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      "label": "Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China 
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