When Knowledge Becomes Infrastructure
For centuries, societies have competed for strategic resources. Land. Water. Energy. Raw materials. Data. But what if the next strategic resource is something even more fundamental? Intelligence. Not the intelligence of a single individual. Not the intelligence of a single company. But the accumulated intelligence of humanity itself. Every scientific discovery, every book, every line of code, every work of art, every lesson taught, every language spoken, every idea transmitted across generations contributes to a vast collective reservoir of knowledge. For most of human history, this reservoir grew slowly. Today, artificial intelligence can access, process and recombine parts of it at unprecedented scale. This raises a question that few people seem willing to ask: Who should steward collective intelligence when it becomes critical infrastructure? Artificial intelligence is often presented as a technological breakthrough. And it is. But it is also something else. ...
