Time Traveler Learns AI Wasn't a Bubble, We're Cloud Gamers

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A four-panel stick-figure comic. A blue scientist in a lab coat beside a purple portal says "With this time machine I shall, blah, blah." An orange-jumpsuit volunteer in a crowd replies "I volunteer," then stands at the portal with the caption "Adiós." In a barren future, a gray figure in brown rags sits on the ground and says "AI was not a bubble. We cloud gamers now," while the volunteer answers "Oh god..." The volunteer went forward to watch the AI boom crash; instead the models were real and consumer silicon lost the GPU war to data centers. Cloud gaming — GeForce Now, Luna, the ghost of Stadia — is the leftover identity: you don't own a card, you rent a stream from the same racks that train the models.