The four outcomes the machine can still have, a strategic engine, a rationed utility, commodity infrastructure and a distressed asset. The Scorecard’s plurality says which is arriving. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Defined in Chapter 14 — The Convergence.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 14 — The Convergence
One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.
Also discussed in
- Page The Compute Economy
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Four futures.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/four-futures (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-four-futures-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Four futures}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/four-futures},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}