Future Shock (1970)
The original naming event behind the book's title and its revision.
When Reality Gets Outsourced
FUTUROSHOCK
The future does not arrive anymore. It autocompletes.
AI Euphoria, AI Nausea, and the Fight to Remain the Author of Your Own Life
agency shock: too many realities, too many agents, too little authorship.
19
Concepts
30
Sources
5
Parts
23
Visuals
30 Sources' Atlas
Built from books, theory, policy, and AI evidence.
The AI Mirror
How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking.
AI Index Report 2026
The strongest public benchmark for capabilities, deployment, investment, and governance gaps.
Alone Together
A foundational text on companionship without reciprocity and technologically mediated solitude.
Atlas of AI
Re-materializes AI into minerals, labor, logistics, energy, and planetary cost.
When the future stops arriving and starts autocompleting you.
Five parts. Nineteen concepts. One nervous-system problem.
The system runs on misaligned temporal regimes, not on one single speed.
- Chapter 1 - The Five Clocks
- Chapter 2 - Too Many Realities, Too Little Agency
Authorship erodes in the private life of language, attention, proof, and feeling.
- Chapter 3 - Who Wrote This Morning?
- Chapter 4 - The Last Shared Reality
- Chapter 5 - The Infinite-Curiosity Trap
- Chapter 6 - The Numbness
The market rewrites desire, status, intimacy, and the price of staying recognizably human.
- Chapter 7 - Founder or Loser
- Chapter 8 - Markets as Multiplayer Therapy
- Chapter 9 - More Human Than Human
- Chapter 10 - They'll Still Kick the Robots
AI becomes office mutiny, planetary infrastructure, geopolitical friction, and swarm behavior.
- Chapter 11 - Shadow AI and the Office Mutiny
- Chapter 12 - Geopolitics of Friction
- Chapter 13 - Climate Becomes the Accountant
- Chapter 14 - From Smart Mobs to Algorithmic Swarms
The answer is not unplugging. It is reclaiming authorship through the Agency Stack.
- Chapter 15 - The Right to Disappear
- Epilogue - The Agency Stack
- Afterword - Against Prophecy
Featured concepts
Start with the ideas that carry the book's weight.
Agency Shock
Agency shock is the book's central wound: the growing distance between actions happening and the felt sense that they were authored by you.
The Five Clocks
The modern wound is not speed alone. It is the collision of five incompatible tempos: compute, institutions, climate, demography, and the biological human body.
The Last Shared Reality
Shared reality erodes when proof loses the power to settle disputes and people inhabit separately rendered worlds.
Founder or Loser
The market turns the self into a scoreboard that offers only two identities: winner by exponential scale or failure by comparison.
Shadow AI
Shadow AI is the quiet use of machine systems ahead of permission, policy, or institutional blessing.
The Agency Stack
The Agency Stack is the book's anti-framework: intent, provenance, friction by design, the human premium, and resilient communities.
Provenance
The dissertation I never defended.
The first political-reality question
The provenance note traces the inquiry back to political science studies and a thesis about information and communication technologies in the construction of political reality.
The dissertation that stalled
The planned doctoral path at Moscow State University extended the same inquiry into public administration, territory, and trust, but the formal defense never arrived.
Reality engineering by hand
Building licensed financial institutions and writing regulatory frameworks became a practical continuation of the same question: how institutions construct trust and legibility.
The book as the late defense
Futuroshock becomes the delayed public defense: not a pivot away from finance into cultural commentary, but a return to a twenty-year inquiry under the pressure of AI.
The dissertation I never defended
The provenance note turns biography into method. The book does not present itself as a detached forecasting object; it presents itself as the latest submission in a long, interrupted investigation into how technology constructs reality, trust, and political feeling.
Public sociology, not prophecy
The academic framing positions the project in the line of public sociology and futures writing without pretending to be a conventional peer-reviewed monograph. Its wager is diagnosis plus vocabulary, not prediction.
With AI, not by it
The manuscript openly states that the book was written with AI, but argues that authorship can survive co-creation only through strict intentional practice. The site should stage that tension rather than hide it.
Slides, maps, and atmosphere from the working archive.
Reality happening through you, rather than by you.
You do not have to win the future.