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Life in 2045

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About 3,400 words. It sets out the central claim, defines the fork the book returns to in every chapter, and explains why the dates run the way they do. Read it in full, free, inside the reader.

  • 01Why intelligence is a power technology, not a productivity technology
  • 02The fork: liberation or domination, and what decides it
  • 03How to read the chronology without mistaking it for a forecast
A figure stands before a vast glowing globe in a dark hall.
Part V · The city that reads itself

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