Path Dependent / 02 · Fiction
The Gods
Everything is provided.
Who gets to choose?
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.
53 pages · 5 chapters · Illustrated
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The complete story, with two new illustrations in The Aiomic Age’s house style. The conversations of a man who owns almost everything alternate with the voice of a man who has everything provided.
About Karim
Karim Galzahr is an investor and economist, and a co-founder and host of The Aiomic Age. His work follows the money and the mechanisms behind the AI era, drawing on economics, physics and statistics.
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Path Dependent explores futures that are still available to us. Each story follows choices and their consequences. Further pieces are planned about once a month.
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