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Research Notes: The Year Models Commodified

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A Z Mackay
Feb 17, 2026
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Opening: The Question That Started This

What does it actually mean for a technology to commodify? Not in press release language, but in the pattern that has played out every time a transformative capability became ubiquitous. Railroads. Electricity. Computing. The internet. Each time, there was a window where the technology itself was the scarce resource…

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