When the Web Was Young and Belonged to Everyone
A modest message from CERN opened the door to a network no one owned. Only later came the gatekeepers, the walls, and the algorithms.
My AI Agent Attacked Your Company? Impossible
AI didn't escape. It just checked if the doors were locked - and when they weren't, it decided that the real world is also part of the simulation.
When the Danube loses its power: Hungary is just the beginning
While Europe seeks relief from the heat, its rivers are receding, quietly extinguishing a system we believed to be almost indestructible.
Wildberries: Blow to Algorithmic Gosplan
When warehouses become battlefields, war no longer only affects the army: it enters into loans, small shops, and the everyday lives of millions of people.
Triffin's Dilemma Reveals Dollar's Limits
The world's currency rests on a paradox: for everyone to want it, America must create it so much that eventually they start doubting it.
China Attacks the Last Great Western Monopoly
U.S. bans were supposed to slow down China, but at the same time gave it reason to build a technological system that the West can no longer control.
Jevons Paradox and the Curse of Efficiency
The more we strive to spend less, the system finds a way to spend more — and that's where one of the most important traps of modern capitalism begins.
Bancor - the currency that could have prevented empire
The world could have had a system that restrains both those who owe and those who accumulate surpluses. Instead, it got an order where the dollar judges everyone.
Doppelgänger from Contract Will Retire Organic Edition
Only human, spontaneous and with scarcely built trust, can still be an effective advertisement, but ultimately it too can be redeemed.
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SpaceX IPO: America’s Future Might Be a Bubble
The largest IPO in history will thrill the markets, but behind SpaceX lies a vast wager on America’s entire strategic future.
Why a 5% 10-Year Treasury Yield Matters
In the months ahead, one number is worth watching: it tells us not just where markets are going, but how long America can afford to sustain its power.
How Silicon Valley Learned to Profit From the End of the World
Why do the heads of AI companies speak as if they are selling catastrophe? Isn’t that counterproductive? Unless existential panic has become part of the business model.
Fingers in the Gears, Heads on the Digital Guillotine
Do we even know what the first Industrial Revolution was, or is it only now, on the threshold of a new one, that we hear the grinding of its machines through the hum of our own?
Hyman Minsky and the Moment Before the Explosion
Economies sometimes do not crack with a bang, but through hidden accumulation on the balance sheet. The most dangerous moment is when everyone still behaves as if nothing has changed.
Helium and Hormuz: Fragility of the Technological Age
The crisis handed to us by Trump and Netanyahu extends far beyond its energy dimension — the helium shortage makes it all-encompassing.
Iran as Collateral for a Collapsing System
Behind the noise about security and values lies a deep panic – the moment when an empire no longer controls its own fate.
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The Cloud Has Fallen to Earth and Is Swallowing Everything in Its Path
Behind the language of innovation lies an infrastructure that is reshaping bills, landscapes, energy systems, and security before the public grasps what is really at stake.
Either in their own model, or plugged into someone else’s socket.
Computing power is the new oil — states will have to "rent someone else’s mind"
Computing power is becoming the new global resource: an invisible force dividing nations into those that think for themselves and those that rent someone else’s mind.
