Only a handful of technologies in history have earned the label “revolution,” the ones that reset what a civilization can accomplish. Electrification rewired how we power a nation. The semiconductor rewired how we compute. The internet rewired how we connect. 

Artificial intelligence belongs on that list and may be the most consequential yet. It doesn’t just change how we live and work; it changes the process of discovery itself. Whichever nation leads that transition sets the terms of science, industry and security for this century. That is the case for urgency. It is also why recent events matter.