<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The Manhattan Project concentrated extraordinary... > The Manhattan Project concentrated extraordinary resources because governments believed the outcome could reorder civilization. Look at the capital, energy, land, chips, laboratories, and geopolitical urgency now converging on AI and tell me this is merely another software cycle. Civilizations reveal their beliefs in budgets long before they reveal them in speeches. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The Manhattan Project concentrated extraordinary resources because governments believed the outcome could reorder civilization. Look at the capital, energy, land, chips, laboratories, and geopolitical urgency now converging on AI and tell me this is merely another software cycle. Civilizations reveal their beliefs in budgets long before they reveal them in speeches.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-manhattan-project-concentrated-before-reveal-speeches ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->