In this raw excerpt from *Dialogs with a Machine*, we dissect America’s pivot from building industrial AI—machines that forge, weld, and create—to perfecting digital puppeteers that control human behavior. Blending personal history (Bell Labs internships, RCA tinkering) with scathing analysis, he traces how offshoring gutted technical prowess while business elites embraced "P-code": algorithms that swipe us into submission. The essay unflinchingly parallels historical labor systems with AI’s failed promises, arguing that nations who retained hands-on ingenuity now build our future—while we scroll toward obsolescence. A requiem for the Saturn rocket builders and a warning about glowing rectangles hijacking destiny.
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