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Take the ideas home. Most of it is free.
The ebook of What If You Live?, plus free apps, guides and word finders you can use and share.
The book behind the project
What If You Live? — the ebook
How AI will touch every part of society, why our institutions will need to grow to keep pace, and how we can make sure no one is left behind.
$4.00
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Free apps & guides
Free to use. Free to share.
Short, self-paced guides and handy references you can use in any order. They work on a phone, need no account, and cost nothing.
AI tools & the future
App
Cogniscope One
A research workbench for studying how AI models behave in conversation. Private: nothing leaves your computer.
Guide
Building an Expert Agent with Hugging Face
Build your own expert AI assistant step by step with free tools.
Guide
Post-Scarcity
Could technology end want for good? The strongest case on each side, laid out fairly.
Guide
Longevity Escape Velocity
Can medicine outrun aging? What the science shows and what’s still argued.
Science & the natural world
Interactive
The Solar System
One star, eight planets, and an enormous amount of nothing, with a true-distance map.
Animals
What’s It Called? — 16 word finders
No. 7
Business & Finance
Profit versus cash, APR, margins, taxes, and the words used to persuade you.
No. 10
Artificial Intelligence
Models, tokens, alignment, AGI: the field’s words, including the contested ones.
No. 12
Government, Policy & Law
Statutes, regulations, courts and rights, and where ordinary people have a voice.
No. 14
Medicine & the Doctor’s Office
What’s said to you and written on your chart, so you can ask the next question.