The Algorithm and the Orchard

Meta announces an increase in projected expenditure, a swelling of the purse strings by seventy-three percent. Microsoft confesses to having poured over two hundred billion into this pursuit, a veritable river of capital flowing towards the machine. Amazon, ever the pragmatist, pledges another two hundred billion, a bold expansion of its digital holdings. And Alphabet, the most enigmatic of them all, speaks of a sum between one hundred and seventy-five and one hundred and eighty-five billion. It is a profusion, a blossoming of investment, but one must ask: what seeds are they sowing?








