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Which technology dependencies can Europe afford to keep? Bernard Kirsch argues for mapping critical processes, assessing AI projects against their value and risks, and building European alternatives that customers have a reason to buy.
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Path Dependent · Fiction
A tycoon talks to the agents who run his world. Ordinary Joe talks to the companion who makes his life comfortable. Between them, a handwritten message opens a path neither can control.
Read the storyAn adviser who deals only in numbers takes on a leader who deals only in attention, and offers to make her the first great political movement of the AI age. Ten conversations, five years, and a distance from revolution that keeps closing.
Read the storyThe Choices
Where acceleration favours the small, where it favours incumbents, and how to tell which market you are in.
Reading your occupation's exposure task by task, not headline by headline.
Attention, skills and judgment: what the evidence says childhood needs when the tools can do the homework.
Read the source. Examine the argument. Keep your own judgement.
