My tweets from February 2026
February 5, 2026
While browsing scanned issues of The Tombstone Epitaph (Tombstone, Arizona Territory), I came across this 1908 opinion piece. I present it here translated.
Lately, people keep stopping me on the main street with the same anxiety: whether these motor cars are going to ruin the wagon trade. I answer calmly: one thing is the noise of novelty and another is the craft. In the craft, three virtues matter: regularity, economy, and reliability, and one should pay less attention to the chatter of promises and more to the complete mechanism of things.
My prediction is simple. There will be automobiles, yes, as there are all kinds of contraptions that entertain and serve in occasional cases. There will also be horses, of course, because the real world is not a Sunday stroll, but mud, distance, cargo, and seasons.
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February 24, 2026
Argument against Jevons: complexity of the system grows exponentially and people doesn’t want/need more features (same argument you did for slow diffusion of AI).
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February 26, 2026
And we’ve seen a strong precedent: HyperCard (1987) put “software creation” in ordinary people’s hands.
AI should feel like that: hackable, personal, user-owned. Tools that amplify humans, not agents that replace them.
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