JHU Asst. Prof. @nickacaputo says today's AI moment mirrors 1887, when the railroad and telegraph forced the first federal regulatory agency into existence: "The modern administrative state is considered to emerge in 1887. The first modern bureaucratic institution in the US is the Interstate Commerce Commission, and it was created specifically to resolve the problems that rapid economic growth and the deployment of new technologies, in particular the railroad and the telegraph, were causing in…