So, here we are in the year of the lord 2026, an era marked by technology that is indistinguishable from magic: cars that drive themselves, pop songs that spring into existence from neural networks, robots that make chit chat, etc. And what is the great investment trend? It is shiny rocks. The hottest investment class this year is the same one that, in 1851, drove frenzied migration to Australia: gold. The same stuff that sent Spanish conquistadors deep into the Amazon.