The Fall of the Local Hero. Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town & Hungry Heart: I Was There

Springsteen - 1977

Back then, songs over two minutes long didn't make it on the AM waves and barely got to the FM dial.

But one song did; Born To Run, By Bruce Springsteen.  The tome followed the timeless, American teenage journey of struggle and travel on the road to knowing if 

"love is wild, if love is real."

PDS Copiers: Water Coolers to AMRs By Mason Bright | Greg Report Ai 2027

London, Kentucky.

Not a robotics lab.
Not a venture fund zip code.
A copier dealership.

Precision Duplicating Solutions started in a garage in 2002. Off-lease machines. Service calls that ran long. Contracts signed at folding tables. They built trust the old way. Thirty-three counties. Trucks on the road before sunrise. Technicians who know which side door the customer prefers.

When print slowed, they did not panic. They looked at what they already understood.

Install.
Support.
Service.
Contract.

That discipline led to water.

Read it, here.

Mark my words- Feb, 2026:

1. On-prem, will be the new cloud.  Not edge, not even a server. In the palm of your hand. Air-gapped. 'Burst-Mode' to the interwebs.

2. Ai adoption, in the Enterprise, will be from the ground up.  C-Suite driven Ai projects suffer temporally; too slow.  Whiteboard, Eval, RFP, etc.  The Ai Employee will dominate.

3. Ai Agents will pass - very soon.  This week, the "Ai Agent" is getting lots of press.  Folks are building AiAgents for business process workflows, thereby creating a matrix of apps, connectors, APIs, MCPs, cloud services, etc.  A digital house of cards.