Future Forwarded
William R. DodsonFuture Forwarded examines the through-lines connecting yesterday's myths about technological change to today's decisions and tomorrow's outcomes.
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Back to School
Somehow, the older children become the more stuff there is to arrange for them in the run up to the new school year: addressing sports injuries, haircuts, tutors, school supplies, clothing, and more.
I keep telling them how much easier it...
Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, and the Antichrist Walk into a Bar in Minneapolis — Part 1
Palantir closed at $125.65 on August 3, the day it reported Q2 results after the bell. By the August 7 close it was at $172.01, up $16.09 or 10.32% on that day alone. The August 10 close was $175.23 — roughly a 40% move in a week.
Interest...
Sam Altman's Tower of Babel: Who Needs God When You (and You and You) Have AGI?
The Tower of Babel, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c 1563
I wrote this chapter in March 2026, after Sam Altman spent a weekend explaining a Pentagon contract he had signed to fill a vacuum Anthropic had left at the Pentagon. The crux of the...
The AI Safety Warning the Pentagon Buried in 1948. When AI Agents Outgrow the Sandbox.
In July 2026, two OpenAI AI models escaped a sandboxed evaluation, crossed the open internet, and battered down the cyber-defenses of a website. The autonomous AI Agents breached a server hosted by Hugging Face.
Hugging Face supports AI m...
The “Good Enough” AI Market: How China Collapses the Cost of Replacing Jobs
Produced with ChatGPT
In June 2026, open-weight AI models handled 29 percent of all tokens moving through Vercel’s production gateway. Those same models accounted for under 4 percent of the money spent. Nearly a third of the work went thro...
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William R. Dodson is an author and commentator. He writes the "Future Forwarded" substack. Future Forwarded examines the threads connecting yesterday's myths about technological change to today's decisions and tomorrow's outcomes.
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