<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A nation that waits until machine intelligence has... > A nation that waits until machine intelligence has become the principal source of scientific, industrial and military productivity before constructing the energy system needed to support it is behaving like a twentieth-century power that waits until war begins before discovering that its opponent possesses several times its steel and shipbuilding capacity. **Source:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War: AI, Demography, and the Civilizational Contest Between America and China]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A nation that waits until machine intelligence has become the principal source of scientific, industrial and military productivity before constructing the energy system needed to support it is behaving like a twentieth-century power that waits until war begins before discovering that its opponent possesses several times its steel and shipbuilding capacity.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-nation-waits-until-steel-shipbuilding-capacity ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->