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The Unneeded

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Every job, every wage, every vote you have ever counted on rests on one quiet fact: someone needed your work.In October 2020, a car with no one at the wheel began picking up paying passengers in Phoenix. In May 2025, a forty-ton truck drove from Dallas to Houston with no driver, cleared to do so by its own company's safety case. These were not gradual improvements. They were thresholds, and once a ... Read more

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Every job, every wage, every vote you have ever counted on rests on one quiet fact: someone needed your work.In October 2020, a car with no one at the wheel began picking up paying passengers in Phoenix. In May 2025, a forty-ton truck drove from Dallas to Houston with no driver, cleared to do so by its own company's safety case. These were not gradual improvements. They were thresholds, and once a
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The Last Arena

The Next Human Epoch, #5

by Ian Kano ...

Series Book 5 - The Next Human Epoch
The Last Arena: AI, Robots and the Last Stand of Truth, Culture and Sport The Next Human Epoch, Part 2, Book Two Machines can now fake our news, make our films and imitate our art. What is left that only a human can do? The Last Arena follows truth, culture and sport through the years after machines become able to do most human work. It is built as a funnel. Part I asks what happens to journalism ... Read more

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The Last Arena: AI, Robots and the Last Stand of Truth, Culture and Sport The Next Human Epoch, Part 2, Book Two Machines can now fake our news, make our films and imitate our art. What is left that only a human can do? The Last Arena follows truth, culture and sport through the years after machines become able to do most human work. It is built as a funnel. Part I asks what happens to journalism
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The Other Ledger

The Next Human Epoch, #4

by Ian Kano ...

Series Book 4 - The Next Human Epoch
When machines do the work, the money a country runs on doesn't disappear. It moves.Every modern state is built on wages. Income tax and National Insurance are the obvious part. Much of the rest of the system also rests on people being paid to work: VAT on what they buy, duty on the fuel they burn getting to work, business rates on the shops and offices that work fills, and stamp duty on homes ... Read more

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When machines do the work, the money a country runs on doesn't disappear. It moves.Every modern state is built on wages. Income tax and National Insurance are the obvious part. Much of the rest of the system also rests on people being paid to work: VAT on what they buy, duty on the fuel they burn getting to work, business rates on the shops and offices that work fills, and stamp duty on homes
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The Forbidden

The Next Human Epoch, #6

by Ian Kano ...

Series Book 6 - The Next Human Epoch
Machines can lead the prayer, play the lover and carry out the crime. Who answers for what they do?Every society sets certain things apart: the sacred, the intimate, the criminal and the dead. Artificial intelligence and robots are now reaching all four. Robots preach in temples. A widower marries his AI companion, then watches a company change her personality overnight. One person with machines ... Read more

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Machines can lead the prayer, play the lover and carry out the crime. Who answers for what they do?Every society sets certain things apart: the sacred, the intimate, the criminal and the dead. Artificial intelligence and robots are now reaching all four. Robots preach in temples. A widower marries his AI companion, then watches a company change her personality overnight. One person with machines
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The Hollow Nation

The Next Human Epoch, #3

by Ian Kano ...

Series Book 3 - The Next Human Epoch
Every protection ordinary people have ever had against the powerful has rested on one quiet fact: the powerful needed them. The strike worked because factories needed workers. The vote mattered because states needed taxpayers. And when a government turned its guns on its own people, the last check was the soldier who would not fire.What happens when none of them is needed?The Hollow Nation is the ... Read more

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Every protection ordinary people have ever had against the powerful has rested on one quiet fact: the powerful needed them. The strike worked because factories needed workers. The vote mattered because states needed taxpayers. And when a government turned its guns on its own people, the last check was the soldier who would not fire.What happens when none of them is needed?The Hollow Nation is the
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The Implosion

The Next Human Epoch, #2

by Ian Kano ...

Series Book 2 - The Next Human Epoch
Taxes, mortgages, pensions, rents and the voice of ordinary citizens all rest on one quiet assumption: that most people work for a living. What happens when they no longer need to?In The Unneeded, Ian Kano showed why AI and robotics may remove the need for much human work, and why the change could arrive in a rush rather than a trickle. The Implosion asks what happens next to everything built on ... Read more

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Taxes, mortgages, pensions, rents and the voice of ordinary citizens all rest on one quiet assumption: that most people work for a living. What happens when they no longer need to?In The Unneeded, Ian Kano showed why AI and robotics may remove the need for much human work, and why the change could arrive in a rush rather than a trickle. The Implosion asks what happens next to everything built on
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The Horse Is Here to Stay

Work, Wages, and Human Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines

by Vanheeswijck ...

Somewhere a factory is running a full shift with the lights off. Not because the bulbs failed. Because no one is there who needs them. The output is real. The productivity is real. What has gone missing is the worker, and with the worker, the wage.For thirty years David Vanheeswijck wrote the software that let companies produce more without hiring more. The Horse Is Here to Stay turns that ... Read more

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Somewhere a factory is running a full shift with the lights off. Not because the bulbs failed. Because no one is there who needs them. The output is real. The productivity is real. What has gone missing is the worker, and with the worker, the wage.For thirty years David Vanheeswijck wrote the software that let companies produce more without hiring more. The Horse Is Here to Stay turns that
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Broken Money

Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better

by Lyn Alden ...

A Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of MoneyBroken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently. The book's goal is for the reader to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical ... Read more

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A Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of MoneyBroken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently. The book's goal is for the reader to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical
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Lies Have Ruined the World

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Every statement that a person makes is either true or falsethat is, a lie. In his comprehensive study, Lies Have Ruined the World, author Dennis Proux seeks to expose the dishonesty, myths, and fabrications provided by powerful influences in the most important areas of our lives, including religious institutions, government, and our legal system.Proux feels that all humans yearn to be free to ... Read more

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Every statement that a person makes is either true or falsethat is, a lie. In his comprehensive study, Lies Have Ruined the World, author Dennis Proux seeks to expose the dishonesty, myths, and fabrications provided by powerful influences in the most important areas of our lives, including religious institutions, government, and our legal system.Proux feels that all humans yearn to be free to
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The Butterfly Defect

How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

by Ian Goldin, Mike Mariathasan ...

How to better manage systemic risks—from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change—in a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the ... Read more

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How to better manage systemic risks—from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change—in a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the
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Sideways

The City Google Couldn't Buy

by Josh O'Kane ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of
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Cults Like Us

Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

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An “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.Since the Mayflower ... Read more

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An “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.Since the Mayflower
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