From PC revolution to AI boom: shift of epochs measured in billions
Over the past three decades, the list of the world's richest people has become a clear chronicle of humanity's fundamental transformations. If in the late 1990s wealth concentrated around personal computers and traditional retail, today the top ranks are occupied by inventors of artificial intelligence, private spaceflight, and global digital ecosystems. Every change of leader marked the start of a new technological or economic era that reshaped the familiar world.