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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.

Now Reading: The trial

Just starting to read Franz Kafka’s The Trial, and it’s already proving to be an intriguing exploration of guilt, power, and the absurdities of bureaucracy. The story follows Josef K., who finds himself arrested without explanation… Read More »Now Reading: The trial

Now reading: Entangled Life

Now reading: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures.