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#斯密特 #区块链超话
These days, everyone is talking about Schmidt's leaked speech at Stanford. I think the most thought-provoking part of the entire speech is the last part, which compares artificial intelligence with electrification. Schmidt mentioned that after the emergence of electric motors, it took people 30 years to realize the fundamental changes brought about by this technology, that electric motors of various sizes can be made and placed in various places, thus decentralizing power.
Because he didn't elaborate on it in his speech, I went to look up the relevant background. It's like this: In the steam engine era, a factory usually had only one centralized steam engine power workshop to provide all the power. In order to transmit power to each workshop and adapt to the different power requirements of different processes, the factory usually installed a set of sky axis power transmission system. The sky axis is usually suspended under the ceiling of the factory, so it is called the sky axis. It is driven by the centralized steam engine power room and rotates above the machine. The machine under the sky axis transmits power to the machine through gears and belts, as shown in the figure below.