The US shift from Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence signals a transformation in technological and strategic power: from Project Stargate to space weapons, SI could reshape warfare, and its ability to process vast information becomes both an advantage and a threat. On September 29, 2026, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14434, “Inaugurating the Era […]

Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes feel that he has a blind spot when it comes to the value of new technologies. In 1998 he famously wrote: The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that […]

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Certain ideas define us. Some earned names of our own along the way. Others have run through nearly 240 pieces without ever being formally christened. Put together, they amount to a worldview. That worldview has been assembled one essay at a time since 2023. Many readers have walked in mid-conversation. Mention the hardware/software flip, super […]

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