Every major technological breakthrough removes a constraint and reshapes what humans are capable of producing.
From fire and agriculture to software, the internet, and AI, each era has increased leverage while reducing the number of people required to create large-scale impact. But AI has exposed a new limitation: fragmented, incompatible data systems.
This article explores why the next major shift is not just more intelligence or more compute, but interoperability; the ability for data to move, combine, validate, and participate across systems. The result is not simply greater efficiency, but a structural change in who can create value in the AI economy.
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