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Fiction

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Descent Gradient
A short story.
 • A Z Mackay

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The Witness Class
As AI masters production, humans are building a meaning economy based on presence, ritual, and intentional inefficiency
 • A Z Mackay
The Friction Artists
How engineers learned to feel good about what they build
 • A Z Mackay
The Year the Hype Cycle Broke
What prediction machinery optimized for hope reveals about us
 • A Z Mackay
Parasocial: Word of the Year for a Lonely Species
What AI companions reveal about the relationships we actually want
 • A Z Mackay
When Knowing More Means Doing Less
The Algorithm Awareness Paradox
 • A Z Mackay
When Bias Gets a Body
Why we're shipping robots that approved removing wheelchairs
 • A Z Mackay
The Museum Séance
When Archive Becomes Afterlife
 • A Z Mackay
The Complaint Department Is Human
On training your replacement while hoping you're the exception
 • A Z Mackay
The Sorting
Some People Will Think. Everyone Else Will Perform Thinking. The Sort Is Happening Now.
 • A Z Mackay
When Nanoscale Miracles Meet the Meter Scale
The Long Commercial Road for Graphene and Other Wonder Materials
 • A Z Mackay
You're Not Addicted, You're Subscribed
What platforms actually sell when they sell connection.
 • A Z Mackay
The Wrong Emergency
We're debating AI consciousness while knowledge infrastructure gets built
 • A Z Mackay
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