Economic Impact of AI

The Chapter-by-Chapter (CbC) editorial protocol is an original methodology developed and owned by veteran author Craig A. Shuey. What drove me here wasn't inspiration. It was exhaustion with tools that kept falling short, chapter after chapter. I tried the obvious approach first: hand a manuscript to an AI, ask it to help, trust that "help" meant what I thought it meant. I started with Copilot for M365 — it was already sitting inside Word, which felt like the natural place to

Orbital Datacenters | An RFC (Request for Comment) A century from now, the first sign may not be a rocket launch or a ribbon cutting. It may be a quiet service log: a robotic arm swaps a failed compute module, a fresh radiator panel unfolds, and an artificial intelligence cluster above Earth keeps working while the planet below sleeps. That image still belongs to science fiction. Yet it now sits close enough to real trends in computing, launch systems, and in-space manufactur

A version of this piece began as a response to Frank S. Robinson's review of Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI (Vintage Books, 2024), published in Philosophy Now, Issue 174. Robinson's review is the jumping-off point, not the source material — the analysis, data, and speculation below draw on dozens of additional sources cited throughout, and any resemblance to Robinson's or Harari's phrasing is unintentional. An old w