AI and the history of electricity
Coming soon.
Factories bought electricity and ran it to the same steam-engine layout they already had. One big motor, one central shaft, belts to every machine. It took about forty years before anyone put a small motor on each machine and rearranged the floor around the work instead of around the driveshaft. That second move is where the productivity came from.
Most AI adoption today is the first move. This is about what the second one looks like, and how you would know if you were making it.