Artificial Intelligence and the End of Sequential Discovery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798277221594)

For ninety-nine percent of human history, famine, plague, darkness, and distance were simply facts of life. Then, in just three centuries, fifteen accidental meetings between isolated branches of knowledge abolished them forever. A single invention turned air into bread. A forgotten mould became the end of bacterial infection. A glass chip smaller than a fingernail gave every human the power that once filled a building.

This book tells those fifteen stories - not as dry history, but as the human moments when ordinary people first realised the old limits no longer applied.

Then it reveals the sixteenth domain - artificial intelligence - that is no longer waiting for accidents. Thirty real breakthroughs already achieved, seventeen more unfolding in laboratories right now, and ten visionary possibilities that are no longer dreams but questions we finally know how to ask.

This is not a book about technology. It is the story of what becomes possible when humanity stops accepting limits.