Essays

Thinking toward the horizon.

Thinking toward the horizon.

Reflections on narrative, technology, and the futures we inherit.

The Machine That Skips the Interface

The Machine That Skips the Interface

SaaS Repricing, the Risk of Causal Runaway, and a Redrawn Talent Map

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When Fiction Collides with Reality: The Geomechanics and Research Behind RIFT: Gestalt

When Fiction Collides with Reality: The Geomechanics and Research Behind RIFT: Gestalt

How real science became a constraint on the worldbuilding of a hard science fiction novel.

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What Happens to Hollywood When a $3 Million Bet Becomes a $60,000 Experiment?

What Happens to Hollywood When a $3 Million Bet Becomes a $60,000 Experiment?

AI is driving down the cost of experimentation—and changing how companies decide what to test, what to kill, and where to double down.

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The Great Unbundling: How AI Is Rewiring the Publishing Value Chain

The Great Unbundling: How AI Is Rewiring the Publishing Value Chain

Beyond copyright battles and generated text: The collision of Spam Economics, Big Publishers, and the Sovereign Creator.

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When Intelligence Becomes Cheap, What Gets Repriced?

When Intelligence Becomes Cheap, What Gets Repriced?

Critical Variable #1: As the cost of intelligence collapses from a technical metric into an economic force, value migrates from software generation to physical bottlenecks.

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Technology and Choice

Technology and Choice

Every novel begins long before the first chapter. What happens to human choice as our systems become increasingly capable of choosing for us?

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