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6B · The Credit Union
Why the AI era needs a society, not just a wallet The account protects the person. The aggregate protects the people. A living room in Manchester Manchester, New Hampshire, was
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6C · The Employee-Owned Enterprise
Why the people building the AI era should own a share of it People should own a stake in the systems they help make valuable. A newspaper chain in Palo
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7 · Second Launch
The crewed mission for the AI era — from extraction to ownership, from anthropomorphic to anthropogenic, and the launchpad we can build now The first launch was the machine’s. The
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8 · Learning, to Fly
Why none of this can be willed into existence — the cycle shop before the Flyer, the loop before the law, and the acropolis and agora a civic realm will need