The Interplanetary Cloud
Rishabh K Jain
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Add to basketNeuware - What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the very engineers who helped build the digital world Written from the perspective of a cloud, DevOps and platform engineer experiencing AI job disruption from the inside, The Interplanetary Cloud begins with a first-hand look at today's changing workplace.The book takes readers on a journey through the practical realities of our AI transition. It addresses the immediate pressures on knowledge workers alongside the physical and environmental demands of digital intelligence-massive energy demand, heat generation, and growing competition for Earth's land, water and resources. Rather than accepting workforce displacement or planetary damage as inevitable, the author presents Responsible Acceleration and the Employment Bridge: frameworks for helping workers adapt, protecting Earth and managing terrestrial computing responsibly.From there, the book expands its horizon outward. It explores how humanity could gradually reduce pressure on Earth's physical resources by extending data centres, autonomous manufacturing and energy-intensive computing into orbit, onto the Moon, and eventually across the Solar System.Spanning the coming decades and centuries, The Interplanetary Cloud presents a path toward a more abundant technological civilisation. By combining distributed-systems architecture, space logistics, AI and robotic automation, humanity could help create new industries, meaningful human work and access to resources far beyond the limits of one planet-allowing AI to become not simply a force of disruption, but an engine for expanding human opportunity while protecting Earth.
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What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the very engineers who helped build the digital world?
Written from the perspective of a cloud, DevOps and platform engineer experiencing AI job disruption from the inside, The Interplanetary Cloud begins with a first-hand look at today's changing workplace.
The book takes readers on a journey through the practical realities of our AI transition. It addresses the immediate pressures on knowledge workers alongside the environmental cost of digital intelligence—massive energy demand, heat generation, and growing competition for Earth's land, water and resources. Rather than accepting workforce displacement or planetary damage as inevitable, the author presents Responsible Acceleration and the Employment Bridge: frameworks for helping workers adapt, protecting Earth and managing terrestrial computing responsibly.
From there, the book expands its horizon outward. It explores how humanity could gradually reduce pressure on Earth's physical resources by extending data centres, autonomous manufacturing and energy-intensive computing into orbit, onto the Moon, and eventually across the Solar System.
Spanning the coming decades and centuries, The Interplanetary Cloud presents a path toward a more abundant technological civilisation. By combining distributed-systems architecture, space logistics, AI and robotic automation, humanity could create new industries, meaningful human work and access to resources far beyond the limits of one planet—allowing AI to become not simply a force of disruption, but an engine for expanding human opportunity while protecting Earth.
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