The First AI Age: How the 1870–1914 Industrial Supercycle Built the Modern World — And Why 2025–2035 Rhymes With It.

Between 1870 and 1914, steel, railroads, electricity, and global capital markets fused into the first true industrial supercycle. This era built the financial and energy architecture we still live inside today—and it looks uncannily like the AI–data-center–SMR boom now unfolding into 2025–2035.