AI Has Ancestors Series
Table of Contents
8 chapters-
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Part One — The Pre-Code World
The black box has a five-thousand-year family history — and it tells us what to expect, and what to
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Part Two — The Post-Code Break
The fifth member crosses the line the first four never touched — and one language, alone in five thousand years, was
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Part Three — The Substance
Part Three — The Substance The oldest warning in the family was aimed at the wrong technology. It was waiting for
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The Uneven Present
Why AI Is a Lived Fact in Some Societies and a Rumor in Others A Code After essay · companion to
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The Machine That Could Be Any Machine Part I
The Long Coupling The hardware companion to the language essays, in two parts. For most of history the rule and
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The Machine That Could Be Any Machine Part II
The Decoupling Part 2 of 2. In Part 1, the rule and the machine were one thing for thousands of
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Chasing the Tails
AI is reshaping work twice — once inside every workplace, and once across the map. The first everyone argues about. The
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The Wrong Ancestor
An essay in the AI Has Ancestors series. AI is not the next internet. It is the next electricity — a