From Signals to Systems: Engineering as Stewardship

A specification tells you what a component should do under controlled conditions. It doesn’t tell you what happens when that component is asked to operate for twenty years in a substation control panel with inadequate ventilation, marginal grounding, and legacy protocols it was never designed to handle.
Elon Musk Is Right About the Bottleneck — But He’s Solving a Different Problem Than Most Communities Face

Because the future is being built whether communities participate or not. And the places that organize early—around power, connectivity, workforce, and fit-first development—will still matter, even in a world where some of the compute leaves the planet.