I. Introduction: The Hum of an Ancient Motor in a Digital Age Each morning, over a cup of tea in my quiet house, I open my laptop to a stream of voices from across the world. There’s a crypto thinker sketching blueprints for borderless economies, an AI researcher unpacking the next leap in machine minds. […]
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I. Introduction: The Quiet Solvent at Work Picture a corner shop in Leeds, the kind where the owner still jots orders on a notepad, chasing payments by phone. Now imagine that same shop, but with a quiet hum in the background: software that predicts when stock runs low, flags delays before they hit, and even
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I. Introduction: The Allure of Endpoints and the Pull of Patterns Picture a quiet evening in London, the kind where rain taps steadily on the window like an old friend sharing half-formed thoughts. I sit at my desk, born in 1971 and shaped by the grey edges of Thatcher’s Britain, mapping out ideas for an
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Introduction: From Coase’s Shadow to Blockchain’s Light A walk along the Thames Embankment in late October 2025, with leaves turning under a grey sky, often pulls my thoughts to older ideas. Ronald Coase wrote in 1937 about the hidden costs that stop good trades—searching for partners, haggling over terms, enforcing deals. These frictions, he said,
Hook & Thesis: Marking the Midpoint in the Machine It is October 31, 2025, and the air feels thick with possibility—or peril, depending on the headline you last skimmed. Scroll through the news feeds, and you’ll spot the usual suspects: a factory worker in the Midlands made redundant by a clever algorithm, a London office
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I. Introduction: The Cinematic Spark and the Lingering Chill Picture a young programmer, alone in a remote house of glass and steel, drawn into a conversation with a being who seems to understand him more than anyone ever has. Her words are soft, probing, laced with just enough vulnerability to make him lean closer. But
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Introduction: Anchoring in Leads – Why the Cycle Looks Bullish Despite the Noise A simple table can shift how you see the world. In Julien Bittel’s latest update from the Macro Investing Tool, released on 23 October 2025, a heatmap glows mostly green. It tracks 16 major economies, from the United States to China and
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Abstract Picture a delivery driver in Manchester, pausing mid-route to tag a pothole on their phone app for 50p. It’s a small task, gone in two minutes. But that tag feeds an AI learning to dodge the same bump tomorrow. This is the quiet shift in how we train smart machines—not from dusty books, but
Introduction: The Persistent Controller The fog clings low over the Devon moors this morning, as it often does in these parts, muting the ridge lines that have stood sentinel since long before any of us drew breath. I pause mid-stride, born in 1971 to a UK still shaking off the shadows of ration books and
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Section 1: The Misfire—How We’re Getting AI Wrong In the dim glow of a south London bedroom in 1982, a boy of eleven hunched over a ZX Spectrum, its rubber keys yielding halting lines of BASIC code that flickered to life on a monochrome screen. The machine did not think or dream; it simply executed,
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