Nobody Voted for the AI Race
The United States has a long history of treating technological competition as a crisis, and of building permanent institutions on the strength of that crisis.
Artificial Intelligence
The Assistant That Stays Home
What a private AI assistant on your own laptop can actually do today
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act V)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act IV)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act III)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE (Act II)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
THE 1602 MACHINE
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
Nobody to Sue — A country is about to let a company exist with no person behind it
In 2024, a man named Jake Moffatt lost his grandmother. He went online to book a flight home for the funeral. Air Canada’s website chatbot popped up and told him he could apply for a discounted…
Singularity and the Rain of Telephones
Charles Stross opens Singularity Sky with one of the great first paragraphs in science fiction. Telephones fall out of the sky onto the cobblestones of a colonial capital. Some of them are still…
The Quiet Abundance of the Singularity
In the summer of 2026, a seventy-one-person clinical trial in China quietly closed the distance between “incurable” and “treatable” for a disease that has no cure.