Curated Series Collections
Welcome to the curated collections — selected essays organized into thematic arcs. Each of these collections reflects a major thread that cuts across my work, as I explore the transformations happening in technology, society, and governance in this century.
📌 The Final Industrial Revolution
This is the technological arc. |
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Athena Child |
The rise of AI and machine learning as systemic economic accelerators — not simply as tools, but as wetware augmentation. In this arc we track the displacement effects of LLMs, multimodal engines, cloud ecosystems, and cognitive augmentation that are transforming industries, reshaping labor, and redefining what it means to "work" or "produce." Most of these stories are adventures — journeys I have personally walked. From daring startups applying unproven, experimental technologies in hopes of carving out a niche; through exceptionally wealthy investors allowing me and my teams to experiment with magnificent and spectacular digital beings in hopes of conjuring future disruptions; and down to hesitant laggards taking their first tentative steps, pushing their own psychological and financial boundaries out of fear of missing out. Some of these journeys are stranger than fiction. Others are lamer than a muggle. But rest assured — I will share with you the bits worth knowing. |
📌 Rupture: The War of Gods
This is the ideological and existential arc. |
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Athena Today - Ukrainian Mother |
It really is about war. The way war permeates and intercepts all aspects of human life and death. The way it quietly reshapes a vibrant hacker scene in Prague without even being noticed across Europe. The way it touches the preexisting existential struggle of the aging democratic order. The conflict between complacency, peace, business-as-usual — and the dawning realization that business-as-usual is no longer possible. In this arc we look at the power struggle between control-based governance and emergent self-organizing systems of competence. This struggle ranges from the dichotomy of national defense volunteer units of Ukraine, and Pentagon-blessed federal draft-style mobilization; from the embrace of freedom of decision, always — to the daunting burden of chain of command. And amid this dichotomy, quietly, something else rises. Something new. Never seen before in combat. Another child of Athena: artificial combat intelligence — the only being that is not human, yet charged with zeroing humans. |
📌 The Fall of Democracy
This is the geopolitical arc. |
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American Democracy Today Here we analyze how advanced technologies (AI, surveillance capitalism, regulatory capture) collide with decaying democratic institutions. The rise of rent-seeking bureaucracies, manipulation of public discourse, and the paralysis of democratic decision-making — all against the backdrop of accelerating technological change that governance structures are increasingly unfit to handle. In a world where Ukraine launches fully autonomous and devastating attacks on the occupiers’ strategic forces — while senile political elites cling to controls they no longer command. Sporting Rictus-Americanus this blind copper goddess is bleeding competence to death. |
These are not simply topics.
These are fractures in history.
And we are living the epistemic one today.