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Industrial Revolutions and General-Purpose Technologies in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions

Whether AI will show up in the productivity statistics the way electricity eventually did, or stay a Solow paradox through 2035 — read against the diffusion record of steam, rail, and the dynamo.

By Brecht Corbeel · September 20, 2026 · 15 min read

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