Carlota Perez — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Carlota Perez — On AI. 15 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Deployment Phase
The second half of every technological surge — driven by production capital, shaped by institutional reform, during which the infrastructure installed during the frenzy is redirected toward broadly shared prosperity.
Deployment-Phase Institutions
The specific institutional architectures — educational, labor, social insurance, governance — that redistribute the gains of a technological revolution from the installation phase's concentration toward the deployment phase's broad benefit.
Financial Capital vs Production Capital
Perez's structural distinction between the speculative capital that dominates installation and the patient capital that dominates deployment — two logics with different time horizons, different objectives, and different social consequences.
Framework Knitters of Nottingham
The skilled stocking-frame workers whose destruction by the factory system provides Perez's archetypal example of creative destruction without institutional protection.
Golden Age
The period of broadly shared prosperity that can follow a successfully navigated turning point — constructed through institutional innovation, not bestowed by technology.
Installation Phase
The first half of every technological surge — driven by financial capital, characterized by speculative frenzy, during which the infrastructure of the new paradigm is built at a speed that rational investment could never achieve.
Installation-Phase Incumbents
The parties that captured the gains of the installation phase and whose political and economic resources are deployed during the turning point to shape regulatory outcomes that protect their positions against deployment-phase restructuring.
Technological Revolutions Framework
Perez's structural theory identifying five great surges of technological development since 1771, each following a two-phase pattern of installation and deployment separated by a turning point.
The Builder's Wager
The structural choice facing every builder during the AI turning point — between converting productivity gains into headcount reduction (installation-phase logic) and investing in expanded team capability (deployment-phase logic).
The Education Paradigm Shift
The transition from training students in specific cognitive tasks (which AI commoditizes) to developing judgment, questioning, and integrative thinking — the educational restructuring the AI deployment phase demands.
The Luddite Response
The political and emotional reaction against transformative technology on behalf of the workers and ways of life it displaces — historically vilified, increasingly reconsidered, and directly relevant to the AI transition.
The Turning Point
The window of institutional opportunity — typically opened by crisis — between the installation and deployment phases, during which the institutions that determine the revolution's trajectory must be built.
Victorian Factory Legislation
The nineteenth-century British laws limiting working hours, prohibiting child labor, and establishing safety standards — the archetypal deployment-phase institutional innovation that redistributed the industrial revolution's gains.
Dot-Com Bubble
The late-1990s speculative frenzy over internet companies — whose 2000 crash destroyed $5 trillion in market value and left behind the fiber infrastructure and software platforms on which the information economy's partial deployment was bui…
Software Death Cross
The early 2026 repricing event in which a trillion dollars of market value vanished from SaaS companies — the critical-stage moment when AI's displacement of software's code value became visible to markets.