Fact
- AI agents and increasingly capable automated systems
- Data-center energy demand and physical infrastructure
- Quantum computing research
- Machine optimization
- Algorithmic decision systems
- AI governance frameworks
- Concentration of advanced compute
Extrapolation
- Increasingly autonomous discovery
- Machine-assisted scientific exploration at greater scale
- Large-scale capability search across complex systems
- Hybrid AI / quantum discovery where future practical advantage exists
Fiction
- Max
- MORE Industries
- Harrison
- The mature Decision Layer architecture
- The novel's characters and events
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