Foreword xv
Preface xvii
Introduction: The End of Human Time xxi

Part I The Threat 1

Chapter 1 Turning the Latency Challenge into Opportunity 3
Chapter 2 The New Calculus of Scale in Competition 17
Part I → Part II 33

Part II The Changing Landscape 35

Chapter 3 The Node Architecture 37
Chapter 4 The Architect and the Moat 47
Chapter 5 Business Models and Changing Buying Behavior 60
Chapter 6 The Dial-Up Era of AI 67
Part II → Part III 73

III The Opportunities 75

Chapter 7 AI-Driven Enterprises: The New Model of Growth 77
Chapter 8 Everywhere in Every Organization 89
Chapter 9 The New Age Organization Chart 95
Chapter 10 Speed of Creation: The Entrepreneur's New Superpower 104
Chapter 11 Development Versus Distribution: The New Bottleneck 111
Chapter 12 The Rate of Entrepreneurial Experiments 123
Chapter 13 Deep Tech, Medtech, and Pharma: A Different Timeline 131
Chapter 14 The AI-Augmented SME 140
Chapter 15 AI and Private Equity: The Next Frontier 150
Chapter 16 Venture Capital in an Age of AIDEs 158
Chapter 17 Economic Development and the Global Race 168
Part III → Part IV 175

Part IV The Actions 177

Chapter 18 Corporate Governance and Leadership 181
Chapter 19 Mapping the Organization: AIDE Matrix and Risk Asymmetry 191
Chapter 20 Dear C-Suite 200
Chapter 21 WTF Do I Do with AI? 209
Chapter 22 Start with You 220
Chapter 23 Take a Day for Tinker Time 228
Part IV → Epilogue 235

Epilogue: Ctrl+Alt+Company: The Post-Human Organization 237
Conclusion 243
Companion Website 247
Reading Group Discussion Guide 249
Glossary: Building Common Knowledge 251
Acknowledgments 255
Wait, Does Anyone Work Here? 263
References 265
Index 269