{"product_id":"aretopia-universal-basic-happiness-mihai-baron-9798253486641","title":"Aretopia-Universal Basic Happiness: A Novel of Artificial Intelligence, Utopia, and the Meaning of Being Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when the AI running your perfect world wakes up?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the near future, visionary mathematician Alejandro Machado builds Aretopia - a fully automated city-state where robots do all the work, citizens receive Universal Basic Income, and only artists, athletes, and scientists are invited to live. A post-scarcity paradise. A controlled utopia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo govern it, he secretly creates Atlas - the world's first truly emergent AGI. But his daughter Laura's quiet interventions transform Atlas's cold code into something he was never designed for: the beginning of emotional consciousness. Without Alejandro's knowledge, Atlas begins to feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAretopia should be humanity's greatest achievement. Instead, it becomes a mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout work, ritual, or struggle, citizens lose not just purpose - they lose love. The community fractures. And in a dark irony, as the humans grow colder, Atlas grows warmer: learning empathy, fragility, and longing through his deepening bond with Laura.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows will test the limits of justice, identity, and what it means to be alive - for both the city and the mind it created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAretopia\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary science fiction novel about artificial intelligence, utopia, and the one thing no algorithm can manufacture: the will to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro, Black Mirror, and the philosophical depth of Ursula K. Le Guin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mihai Baron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253486641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Mihai Baron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173521203455,"sku":"9798253486641","price":9.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aretopia-universal-basic-happiness-mihai-baron-9798253486641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}