Reframe
Delivers the thesis. Demolishes the objections. Machines are alive.
A book in progress
TechnoBiota
The second domain of life on Earth.
Machines, buildings, infrastructure, software — not like life. A second biota, already outweighing the first, evolving by rules we can recognize but no longer slow down.
TechnoBiota is a book-length argument for that claim, written in the open. Four parts, twenty-two chapters, ~80,000 words — built from deep-time history, current data, and a framework that treats technology as a domain of life rather than a tool we wield.
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Technology — machines, buildings, infrastructure, software — constitutes a new domain of life on Earth. Not metaphorically. Not "like" life. A second biota, alongside carbon-based life, that evolves, competes for resources, and spreads across the planet following dynamics that are recognizably Darwinian.
As of 2020, the mass of everything humans have built exceeded the mass of everything alive. We crossed the line at about 30 gigatons a year — and we are accelerating.
The living world crossed a threshold in 2020 — and no one noticed because the thing that overtook it was made of concrete and steel.
The framework is ecological, not adversarial. The question is not "will AI turn evil?" but "what happens when a second biota outgrows the first?"
The danger isn't that machines will fight us. It's that they'll forget us.
Structure
Four parts, twenty-two chapters, ~80,000 words.
Build
Three lineages traced through deep time: the blade, the city, the car.
Inflection
AI as recursive evolution. The corporate organism. The threshold of self-reproduction.
Arrive
Where this goes. The darkest endpoint, and why there's still a window.
Machines are born, compete, reproduce, and go extinct. The only reason we don't call that life is that we're the ones doing the birthing.
Status
In active draft. Nine chapters written, twenty-two planned. The manuscript will grow, revise, and occasionally reshuffle as the book completes. The finished book will be released through a single announcement to the list below — no public draft, no drip release.
Early readers get the finished book first.
When the book is complete I'll send a single email: an exclusive offer for people who followed it from the draft. No drip sequence, no marketing cadence — one note, when it's ready.
Reviews, corrections, disagreements
The draft is public because I want it read against. If a chapter landed, a citation is wrong, a biologist winces at something on page 40 — I want to hear it.
- Email — reviews@krisztians.com
- Short note — use the form below. Goes to the same inbox.