Future Forwarded
William R. DodsonFuture Forwarded examines the threads connecting yesterday's myths about technological change to today's decisions and tomorrow's outcomes.
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From Fiber to Gigawatts: The Myth of Technology’s Inevitable Need for Speed
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Sam Altman wants an assembly line for data centers. In September 2025, OpenAI’s chief executive wrote, “Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week.” What Altman...
Jaywalking into the Data Center Fight
Automobile accident in an American city, c. 1920s
Amber is a small town in Grady County, Oklahoma. Now, it may not be able to stop the data center buildout planned just outside its community.
Town officials learned about the project only...
How Technology Promoters Are Railroading a Nation — Part 2
A train engine pushing men along a tressle (aleguz)
This is Part 2 of my substack article “How Technology Promoters Railroaded a Nation.” In Part 1, we tracked how closely the investment boom in the chips and data warehouse buildout of tod...
How Technology Promoters Are Railroading a Nation — Part 1
The ceremony for the driving of the "Last Spike,” of the Transcontinental Railroad (Source: Wikipedia)
Consider the data center campus outside Abilene, Texas. It’s the first site built under the Stargate banner. The land belongs to Lancium...
Inevitable Tech and the Incredible Shrinking Human
Movie poster from The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Source
Amodei writes we are helpless in the face of development of such an “awesome” technology.
The Narrative first removes the people who decide whether or not to adopt the technolo...
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William R. Dodson is an author and commentator. He writes the "Future Forwarded" substack. Future Forwarded examines the threads connecting yesterday's myths about technological change to today's decisions and tomorrow's outcomes.
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