We’re living through the internet boom of the 90s all over again, except this time it’s AI, and most people aren’t making use of it.
Right now, it’s that sweet spot where the tools are powerful but adoption is still patchy. The learning curve is manageable, and the possibilities are endless. But this window won’t stay open forever.
This might be the last chance to build real wealth and independence before automation makes it exponentially harder for regular people to get ahead.
The Creative Apocalypse is Here
What will Hollywood do? This question arose after seeing a crazy new video generator.
Google released Veo 3, a text-to-video model that produces high-quality clips and includes sound design capabilities. The voices sound almost real, not like that annoying TikTok voice.
Veo doesn’t just create scenes, it builds immersive worlds. Hear leaves crunching underfoot, metal clanging in a workshop, or birds chirping at dawn. The real breakthrough? Simply type dialogue and characters come alive with natural speech patterns, fluid lip synchronization, and convincing expressions. The audio isn’t an afterthought, it’s deliberately crafted to support your vision.
Seriously, what happens to entire industries when anyone can create professional-grade content from their bedroom?
Other competitors quickly followed suit, like Midjourney, which generates 4 outputs from each prompt to choose from and costs only a fraction.
One thing that never got completely democratized by the internet was filmmaking. Making movies required massive effort: actors, crew, video and audio processing, microphones, cameras, and other costly equipment.
Creativity is about to become truly accessible to all
This is the moment filmmaking truly breaks free from its gatekeepers. Unlike blogging, podcasting, or even music production, filmmaking has remained stubbornly expensive and exclusive.
Everyone will be able to create original content and distribute it, even to small networks of people.
Take Plamen, a Bulgarian Bitcoin YouTuber who decided to turn his unreleased book into a movie. “Everyone is doing books—I’m going to do a movie,” he thought. While he has more technical knowledge than the average person, anyone can learn these skills. The tools will only become better and more intuitive.
His movie will be set in the future when Earth is living on the Bitcoin standard, and will feature stories and parables about the past from that angle.
Hollywood is going down!
The music industry too, we’re already seeing it. No more massive blockbusters like Michael Jackson or Madonna. Instead, we have a proliferation of smaller creators everywhere.
Now, through AI, we’re about to see an explosion in cinema. Micro-cinema. Personal cinema. It’s absolutely insane.
When the writers in Hollywood demanded a stop to AI use for scriptwriting, they swept the problem under the rug. They got what they wanted, but only temporarily. The soulless corporations they work for know they’re going to replace many of the scriptwriters, but not so fast.
In the future, everyone can become a television star for an audience of 100 people. And that’s not a bad thing.
But I didn’t bring you here today to talk about art.
Remember How Hard Everything Used to Be?
This pattern of technological disruption isn’t new, we’ve seen it before, and understanding the progression helps us recognize where we are now.
Think about it:
- If you wanted to tell someone something, you had to go see them in person or write a letter.
- If you wanted to reach many people, you needed a newspaper, paid advertising, or you had to literally print flyers and stick them on poles and building entrances.
- The internet came after the physical: online stores, movie streaming, suddenly you could reach billions of people just by sharing a URL.
- Then social media gave us ready-made traffic and audiences.
AI is coming for intellectual work
Right now, humans still have the advantage in most thinking tasks because we understand context that AI misses. A human copywriter knows the vibe of a local skateboard shop, the neighborhood, the customers. AI just predicts based on patterns.
You can feed AI more context, but unless you spend hours crafting detailed prompts, the output stays generic. It’s fundamentally different from human understanding, it’s prediction, not true comprehension.
But this is the worst AI will ever be. It’s already handling data analysis and pattern recognition better than humans, and it’s rapidly moving up the complexity chain. First it targets repetitive work, then increasingly sophisticated tasks. There will always be some brain work that AI can’t do, but that list keeps shrinking.
This is the Internet All Over Again
ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022 was the mainstream tipping point moment.
AI is where the internet was in 1997-1998:
- Widespread adoption but still figuring out what works
- The “AI wars” are heating up: OpenAI vs Google vs Microsoft vs Anthropic, just like the browser wars back then
- Lots of experimentation happening
- Early success stories emerging
Back then, people knew the internet was big but most just watched from the sidelines. The people who jumped in and started building things, even small things, got a huge head start.
We’re in that exact same window right now. The tools are there, most people are still hesitant, and there’s room to move fast and build something before everyone else catches on.
The New Entrepreneurs Are Already Here
The new wave of entrepreneurs will be those who deeply understand AI tools and know how to apply and distribute them. They’ll also need smart marketing—figuring out how to cut through all the noise, because noise will be coming from everywhere as everyone tries to grab attention.
It’s going to be challenging. When internet businesses were starting, it was like a big green field—whatever you tried, something would work as long as you were persistent.
Now it requires a completely new skill set. But if you master it, the opportunities are massive.
Even the Giants Are Scrambling
Everyone will benefit from AI, but in different ways.
Large corporations can deploy AI at massive scale, automating entire departments and cutting costs across thousands of employees. But small operators and individuals get something even more valuable: access to capabilities that used to require huge teams and budgets.
But the established tech giants aren’t just optimizing, they’re fighting to maintain their dominance as AI reshapes everything. Search, social media, cloud services, business models that seemed unshakeable are suddenly vulnerable.
You know what’s really telling? Sergey Brin came out of retirement to work on AI full-time at Google. Even he sees this moment as too important to sit out.
The coming productivity explosion will reshape society. As AI and robots handle more work, we’ll see prices drop. Everything from content creation to manufacturing will become cheaper and more efficient.
All of this is happening in our favor: the little guy will benefit, all he has to do is accept these tools and learn to use them. That’s how it was with the internet 20-30 years ago too, the Yellow Pages people were afraid, but for the mass of people it unleashed huge potential.
The Bitcoin Connection
But this deflationary wave comes with a catch. Governments will face a world where they need fewer human workers, where traditional economic models break down. They’ll likely respond with universal basic income programs, central bank digital currencies, and policies we’ve never seen before, but the trend is clear: more control and taxes.
If you’re positioned in crypto you’re calm no matter what. Unlike physical assets which are the easiest to tax, you’re light as a feather and out of any authoritarian government’s grip.
There’s something important here about timing and scarcity.
“In a world where robots, automation, and AI are coming, stack more of what robots cannot create more of.“
They can build more buildings, mine more gold, create more movies, create more of everything, but not Bitcoin. Only Bitcoin remains fixed and more scarce.
The implications become even more profound when you consider how fast robots can scale. Once robots can build robots, the exponential growth in manufacturing capacity will be unlike anything we’ve seen. Physical scarcity as we know it could become obsolete, except for Bitcoin.
The US Government is saying they want Bitcoin and will never sell it, and so is MicroStrategy. What do they see?
We’re moving to a different monetary system.
The Time is Now
We’re in that magical period where the tools are powerful but not everyone knows how to use them yet. Where the competition is still light and the possibilities are endless.
The question is: are you going to be one of the people who recognizes this moment and acts on it, or are you going to wait until everyone else figures it out too?
Because once everyone else figures it out, the easy wins are gone.
This post is inspired by Plamen’s podcast and closely follows a conversation with Srebrin, an entrepreneur and early bitcoin adopter.
