{"product_id":"something-at-the-edge-finding-orientation-in-the-age-of-intelligence-9798258831231","title":"Something at the Edge: Finding Orientation in the Age of Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrew Finch\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services \u0026amp; Welfare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething is shifting underneath the noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot the jobs. Not the politics. Not the economics. Something deeper, in the texture of how human beings relate to each other and to themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost people can feel it. Few can name it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething at the Edge names it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on forty years of pattern recognition across military service, global IT infrastructure, and complex systems, Andrew Finch identifies seven converging structural forces producing maximum systemic instability in the 2030-2040 window. The convergence is not theoretical. It is measurable, it is accelerating, and it has a pivot point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat pivot point is AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut not in the way most books about AI suggest. This is not a book about technology. It is a book about what technology is doing to the texture of human experience, to the capacity for genuine connection, to the coherence of inner life at the moment when coherence matters most.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in genuine dialogue with AI, the method of construction demonstrates the premise. The human brings lived pattern recognition. The AI brings analytical reach. The gap between those two things is itself part of what the book examines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Yuval Noah Harari, Peter Turchin, and Dario Amodei.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who can feel the pattern but cannot yet name it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot frightened. Oriented.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883388846231,"sku":"9798258831231","price":1772.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258831231.webp?v=1781101572","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/something-at-the-edge-finding-orientation-in-the-age-of-intelligence-9798258831231","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}