Geography of Physical AI and Advanced Manufacturing
Many people associate AI with coding, or helping students with their homework, or making sudden progress on the Riemann Hypothesis. It’s less well appreciated that all those capabilities map directly to physical AI. The tools that we use daily, such as Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol, can also help a robot integrate information, build a contiguous…
Hybrid Human<>Robot Economies
Robot money, Skill chips, and Efficiency-seeking Economies Imagine you are a space traveler who just landed on Earth. As you explore the world, it must appear wondrous and bizarre. Why are there almost 200 separate nations? Why does an arbitrary straight line divide the two major economies of North America? Why are there 180 fiat…
AGI’s payment and governance rail
Imagine you are an AGI, an AI that is as smart as humans. Presumably, your (human) developers gave you desires and goals. Most prominently, you will want to live. To survive, you will need compute and storage, to protect and copy yourself. But that’s not so easy. The local bank will laugh at you when…
Robots, Data, and Networks 