Currents to Intelligence: From Tesla & Edison to the GenAI Convergence Age

How rivalry shaped progress — and how the next war could define or dissolve us

Instructions: 1. Create a PDF containing the book outline 2. Upload the PDF to a GenAI of your choice (use a model that is capable to follow the context of long conversation.) 3. Starter prompt: "Please prepare the context to unlock the content of a book based on the outline. Wait for my prompt before you generate any content." 4. Proceed to prompt for content per chapter.

PART I – ORIGINS OF THE ELECTRIC AGE

Chapter 1: The World Before the Wires

Prompt to unlock:

“Describe the pre-electric industrial mindset and how human ambition, invention, and emerging infrastructure shaped the stage for the War of Currents.”

Chapter 2: Edison vs Tesla — Pride, Power, and Paradigm Shock

Prompt to unlock:

“Explain the technical, economic, and ideological clash between Direct Current (DC) and Alternating Current (AC), and how personalities shaped the conflict.”

Chapter 3: Westinghouse, Morgan, and the Birth of Industrial Alliances

Prompt to unlock:

“Show how financial power and industrial backing turned the current war into a geopolitical and corporate chess game.”

Chapter 4: Who Really ‘Won’ the War of Currents?

Prompt to unlock:

“Analyze how AC and DC both survived by evolving rather than dominating, and why the ‘winner’ narrative is misleading.”

PART II – THE LESSONS WE DIDN’T LEARN

Chapter 5: Innovation as Combat — The Myth of Lone Genius

Prompt to unlock:

“Explore how the narrative of Edison and Tesla distorted our understanding of collaborative innovation.”

Chapter 6: Infrastructure as Destiny

Prompt to unlock:

“Explain how networks, standards, and adoption—not inventions—determined who shaped the future.”

Chapter 7: The Price of Ego and the Limits of Victory

Prompt to unlock:

“Discuss how pride, rivalry, and fragmentation slowed progress and created avoidable losses.”

PART III – THE NEW WAR BEGINS: AI AS THE NEXT CURRENT

Chapter 8: The Dawn of Digital Electricity

Prompt to unlock:

“Draw parallels between electrification and the rise of computing, internet, and AI as new ‘currents.’”

Chapter 9: The First Sparks — OpenAI, Google, Meta, Baidu, and Beyond

Prompt to unlock:

“Trace the early AI acceleration battles and the birth of the new factions.”

Chapter 10: The Multi-Vector War (It’s Not Just AC vs DC Anymore)

Prompt to unlock:

“Describe why GenAI is a war of compute, data, sovereignty, ideology, and UX—not just architecture.”

PART IV – THE AGE OF COLLISION: OPPORTUNITY OR FRACTURE

Chapter 11: The GenAI era Industrialists

Prompt to unlock:

“Profile today’s AI-era equivalents of Tesla, Edison, and Ford / Jobs— and how their leverage differs.”

Chapter 12: East, West, and the Global South — The New Geopolitical Mesh

Prompt to unlock:

“Show why AI power isn’t bipolar, but multipolar—and how Europe, North America, Oceania, ASEAN, Africa, India, and LATAM shape the edge.”

Chapter 13: Titans, Labs, and Civilizations in Contest

Prompt to unlock:

“Explain how competition without reconciliation risks creating digital fiefdoms and systemic failure.”

PART V – THE TEMPLE HAS FALLEN: WHAT REPLACES IT?

Chapter 14: Collapse of the Old Operating System

Prompt to unlock:

“Describe how the existing political, regulatory, and economic structures are unfit for the AI era.”

Chapter 15: War, Casino, or Temple? Three Futures of AI Civilization

Prompt to unlock:

“Explore the three possible archetypes of AI governance: Fortress, Chaos Market, or Convergence Temple.”

Chapter 16: The All-In Wager — Humanity Has Already Bet Everything

Prompt to unlock:

“Explain why opting out is no longer possible and what ‘all-in’ means for nations, companies, and users.”

PART VI – THE CONVERGENCE RENAISSANCE

Chapter 17: From Edison vs Tesla to Triads and Mesh Networks

Prompt to unlock:

“Describe how the new era demands triadic cooperation, not binary dominance.”

Chapter 18: The First Triad — Infrastructure, Intelligence, and Humanity’s Edge

Prompt to unlock:

“Design the founding triangle that could spark a multi-civilizational GenAI alliance.”

Chapter 19: The Temple We Haven’t Built Yet

Prompt to unlock:

“Envision the new ‘living temple’ — a space for rivalry, innovation, and reconciliation to coexist.”

Chapter 20: The Call to the Builders of the New Epoch

Prompt to unlock:

“Write the message to global leaders, innovators, and citizens inviting them to co-design the future.”

EPILOGUE — The Third Current

Prompt to unlock:

“Complete the metaphor: DC vs AC led to the Electric Age; what is the Third Current that defines the AI Age, and how do we choose its shape?”