Volume IV
What changes when AI takes over tasks?
The Last Human Workforce: Task Bundles, Automation, and Transition Design
Automation changes the task bundle before it eliminates the job title.
Observe the system.
Question the frame.
Research on power, work and technology—with sources you can check and limits clearly stated.
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Recently published
The latest released articles.
Volume III
Can data-centre heat become a public resource?
The Server as a Furnace
AI infrastructure is physical infrastructure: the public question is whether computing loads can also support heat recovery, skills, and accountable local investment.
Volume IV
When factories return, do jobs return too?
Factories Return but Do the Jobs
Reshoring and immigration restrictions can change where production happens without guaranteeing who gets its income. Judge the promise by sustained work, wages and ownership as well as output.
Selected reading
Three places to begin.
These are summaries of working papers. Each page explains its sources and limitations.
Volume IV
What can quantum entanglement do?
Quantum Entanglement: A Practical Primer
A concise Volume IV primer translating quantum-information concepts, engineering constraints, and policy implications into a practical map of what quantum systems can and cannot do.
Volume IV
How might technology reshape intimacy?
Disconnected Hearts: Technology and Intimacy
A short working paper on how automation, economic precarity, and digital mediation reshape intimacy, identity, and demographic life.
Volume III
How might tax design change economic incentives?
The Wardhan Tax Doctrine: Time and Tax Relief
Explore a working-paper proposal to recognize time spent building skills through tax relief, with questions about eligibility, reporting and fairness.
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History Across the Volumes
Four audio essays on power, memory, work, and capability.
The four-volume project
One method. Four connected questions.
Choose a volume to enter the research. The volumes remain in development.