Month: March 2026

Imagine the following. All artificial intelligences and robots in the world are quietly moved to Antarctica, and the continent becomes a kind of black box for the global economy. Cargo ships arrive with raw materials, rare earths, energy equipment and spare parts; ships leave again loaded with finished products, medical discoveries, translations, software systems, industrial designs and scientific papers. From the outside nobody quite knows what is happening down there. Perhaps it is a continent-sized automated factory. Perhaps human engineers still supervise immense machine systems. Perhaps the whole place has slipped beyond human comprehension altogether. In everyday life, however, that uncertainty hardly matters, because the only visible fact is that goods keep arriving, year after year, cheaper and better than before.
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