Build Rails, Not Trains: A Framework for AI Infrastructure in the Global South (opens in new tab)

Build Rails, Not Trains: A Framework for AI Infrastructure in the Global South There's a question I ask before building anything: "What is missing?" Not: "How do I compete with what already exists?" The answer to the second question leads you toward incremental improvement. The answer to the first question leads you toward infrastructure. The Rail vs. The Train TCP/IP didn't control the internet. It enabled it. Railroads didn't control freight. They enabled an economy. M-Pesa didn't control m...