From the Renaissance to the Quantum Dawn: AI, Computation, and the Next Paradigm Shift
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Five hundred years ago, Florentine craftsmen began using linear perspective to represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional canvas. That movement — the Renaissance — was humanity's first systematic liberation of its own cognitive capacity. We were no longer footnotes to a divine plan. We became, in the famous formulation, "the measure of all things." Today, standing in the early summer of 2026, we are living through another, more radical renaissance: AI is releasing creativity from the