Technology

The frontier is no longer innovation but control. AGI in the next five years raises questions of custody and accountability rather than possibility. Quantum shock threatens to upend assumptions about security, computation, and who can access power. Autonomous futures push humans to the margins of decision-making, leaving open the issue of who benefits and who is excluded. Hidden actors already shape outcomes at scale, and superintelligence debates only distract from the concentration of influence happening out of sight. Technology’s acceleration is certain; the real unknown is who sets its direction, under what terms, and what it will mean for us all.