Economists & Policy Experts - Tech Flywheel Multi-AI Simulation

Ying and Yang: The Flywheel Nobody Designed My father took delight in repairing our mixie so my mother could make Adai for me. A "take care and make things last" world. Coherent. Economical. Gone. What replaced it eventually funded the smartphone that connected a billion people, made semiconductors cheap enough for a poor farmer or daily wage earner to carry the internet in his pocket, gave everyone near-unfettered access to stuff they need (and many they want), promoted rampant consumption, led to geopolitical and supply chain risks, and is also driving climate change. One unplanned flywheel. Good outcomes, bad outcomes, and a permanently changed world — all from the same node. I pulled at this thread in a long jugalbandi with Claude. The ideas are mine. The teamwork kept the thinking honest, picked holes in the logic, and provided ammunition to fill the gaps. Ironically — one of the offshoots of that flywheel too. The thread ends at a research gap: could a multi-AI-agent simulation — governments, OEMs, and consumer archetypes playing out decisions over twenty years — reveal which combination of corporate strategy, consumer behaviour, and regulatory design actually bends the curve? I think it could. That model doesn't exist yet. Read on. And if you work in economics, policy, or computational simulation — I'd especially like to hear from you. (Link to article in first comment) Anand Ramesh, Joyee Deb, Sharad Verma, Nishad Kapadia