THE 1602 MACHINE (Act III)
A Treatise on Dignity, Abundance, and Authentic AI Sovereignty
Work and Economy
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
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.
Ad Hoc, Incorporated
Charles Stross opens Accelerando with a man crossing a plaza in front of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, sunlight coming off the canal, his eyeballs powered up. Manfred Macx is a “venture altruist.” He…
The One-Person AI Company: A Working Blueprint for 2026
Running a 1-person AI startup relies on agentic leverage and context engineering. A solo founder acts as an orchestrator and the vision has been talked about for years.
Building the Bridge to UBI — It doesn’t mean what you think it means
Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…
What if the AI Bubble Doesn’t Pop?
Scott Galloway published a piece on July 17th called “1999.AI,” and it has been gaining traction. The argument is elegant, which is part of the problem. It goes like this: in 1999 the consumer…
The Sky is Not Actually Falling.
If you spend any time online right now, you’ve met the genre: the AI doom essay. The headline promises an imminent “spiral out of control.” The prose is furious. The numbers fly by fast enough that…
A Ghost Model Ran a Trillion Tokens for Free. Here’s How Your Startup Wins in 2026.
On March 11, 2026, a model with no name worth knowing appeared on OpenRouter.