Draft Chapters
Working text and evolving structure. Expect edits.
Chapter 01 — After Abundance
When cognition is cheap and everywhere, value migrates to the scarce: energy, infrastructure, permission layers, and time. This chapter frames the shift from labor economics to energy economics.
Draft excerpt: The moment intelligence becomes a commodity, it ceases to be the bottleneck. Systems that transform energy into real‑world control become the dominant economic engines. The winners are not those who think, but those who can deploy.
Chapter 02 — Energy as Capital
Energy becomes the primary store of value: cheap energy means cheaper everything. The economics of grids, storage, and baseload power become the new capital stack.
Draft excerpt: In the post‑AGI economy, energy is not a cost line—it’s the denominator of all production. Control of generation, storage, and conversion defines sovereignty.
Chapter 03 — Infrastructure Sovereignty
Factories, compute, logistics, and grids are the new borders. Nations and firms compete over physical throughput, not just capital.
Draft excerpt: The “cloud” is a physical system. Compute needs power, land, cooling, and supply chains. The book traces how infrastructure becomes the real moat.