The Story of the Future is the Story of Tokens: Cost, Ownership, and Control
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-08-16
The author argues that the future is defined by the economics of tokens. Key dimensions include acquisition and production costs, producers and users, training data ownership, the vision of controllers, data residency, and whether model makers will compete with their customers using learned intelligence.
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