The screens flash red. Tech valuations erase hundreds of billions in days. Headlines warn of mass displacement. Sectors once thought invincible now trade like distressed assets. This is The AI Depression. It is the valley we must cross in the monomyth. It is raw, visible, and accelerating. And it is exactly why I wrote this series. Today we have a massive example in IBM we will discus below. It has had it largest one day drop in its history, over 35%. This was a shockwave that is sending chills through the entire, already Artificial Intelligence freaked out, stock market. But unfortunately there is a lot more coming.

This Interregnum carries a one-two knockout punch. The first blow, already landing, is the cognitive disruption from AI in knowledge work. The second, set to intensify in 2028, comes from robotics in the physical world.

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