The Algorithm of Two Empires

00 Author's Note → 01 Chapter 1: Two Precedents — When Productivity Revolutions Collide with Hegemonic Competition → 02 Chapter 2: Applying the Formula to Two Empires → 03 Chapter 3: The Ecosystem Called Silicon Valley — Why AI Exploded Here → 04 Chapter 4: Dollars and GPUs — The Dual Structure of Financial and Technological Hegemony → 05 Chapter 5: America's Displaced — From the Rust Belt to White-Collar Work → 06 Chapter 6: America's Discerning — The AI-Native Generation → 07 Chapter 7: Institutional Rigidity — Why America Is Slow → 08 Chapter 8: State-Designed Innovation — The Architecture of China's AI Strategy → 09 Chapter 9: 1.4 Billion Data Points — Why China Dominates AI Application → 10 Chapter 10: China's Displaced — From the World's Factory to the Age of AI → 11 Chapter 11: China's Discerning — Innovation Under Sanctions → 12 Chapter 12: Structural Limits — The Walls the Pursuer Must Climb → 13 Chapter 13: The Chip War and Decoupling — The Economics of Technological Competition → 14 Chapter 14: Two Empires' Displaced — Same AI, Different Lives [Contrast Pair] → 15 Chapter 15: Three Scenarios — The Next Twenty Years → 16 Chapter 16: The Investor's Map — A Positioning Framework for Hegemonic Transition → Epilogue: The Third Players — Strategy for Small Nations →