Now Reading: The Coming Wave
If most tech books try to explain what’s coming, The Coming Wave tries to force a more uncomfortable question: what happens when powerful capabilities stop being scarce? Mustafa Suleyman argues that AI and synthetic biology aren’t just the next innovation cycle, they’re a shift in how power itself is distributed. As the cost of doing complex, high-impact things collapses, control doesn’t scale with it. The real issue isn’t whether these technologies are good or bad, but whether any institution can meaningfully contain them once they’ve spread.









