Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions
Leonardo sketched and, according to some accounts, built a fully articulated Mechanical Knight around 1495.
Leonardo sketched and, according to some accounts, built a fully articulated Mechanical Knight around 1495.
Plenty of people gave longer speeches. Plenty offered more detail.
A prophet’s authority doesn’t come from entering a holy building or performing a holy procedure.
In other words: the Tokugawa peace didn’t kill the warrior class. It forced it to evolve.
A capable state is not the enemy of innovation. It’s the precondition.
History doesn’t guarantee repetition. But it does offer a warning: the empire mindset expands faster than the empire can pay for it.
In the end, the question isn’t whether Trump can write a strategy that sounds like restraint.
The “AI race” story is emotionally satisfying because it’s simple: pick a lane, run faster, win.
It’s January 2028, and the strange part is this: Americans don’t talk about Greenland the way they’d talk about a conquest.
We can’t have everything at once: universal payments, ever-rising guarantees, low taxes, and balanced books.