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Dear Future: You Can Keep The Change
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Dear You Can Keep The Change
, Ronee Hulk offers a haunting and deeply human exploration of artificial intelligence and its quiet unravelling of the systems that once defined who we are. With automation racing ahead of imagination; algorithms deciding what we make, trade, and even how we are valued; Could the global economy fall apart; not through disorder but through the precision of its own design?
Blending philosophy, technology, economics and storytelling, Hulk asks what happens when progress moves faster than purpose, when money loses meaning, and when the foundations of work, wealth, and worth crumble beneath their own automation. Across medicine, education, art, love, and power, each chapter returns to the same impossible what becomes of humanity when value no longer requires human beings?
Both prophetic and deeply personal, Dear Future is a warning, a reckoning, and an awakening. Thoughtful, poetic, and impossible to look away from, it urges readers to face what lies ahead before the future decides what any of us are worth.
“Visionary. Disturbing. Necessary.” Simon Morris. Co-founder LoveFilm, CCO Amazon.com
“A profound and unsettling vision of what lies ahead. This is the definitive ‘what happens next’. A gripping and brilliantly reasoned account of humanity’s accelerating collision with its own creation.” Professor Sneh Khemka, CBE
“An extraordinary exploration of power, purpose, and consequence in the age of intelligent machines. A rare book that looks beyond the hype to expose the economic fragility beneath our accelerating future. Both sobering and essential.” Simon Lints, CEO Schroders Wealth Management
Blending philosophy, technology, economics and storytelling, Hulk asks what happens when progress moves faster than purpose, when money loses meaning, and when the foundations of work, wealth, and worth crumble beneath their own automation. Across medicine, education, art, love, and power, each chapter returns to the same impossible what becomes of humanity when value no longer requires human beings?
Both prophetic and deeply personal, Dear Future is a warning, a reckoning, and an awakening. Thoughtful, poetic, and impossible to look away from, it urges readers to face what lies ahead before the future decides what any of us are worth.
“Visionary. Disturbing. Necessary.” Simon Morris. Co-founder LoveFilm, CCO Amazon.com
“A profound and unsettling vision of what lies ahead. This is the definitive ‘what happens next’. A gripping and brilliantly reasoned account of humanity’s accelerating collision with its own creation.” Professor Sneh Khemka, CBE
“An extraordinary exploration of power, purpose, and consequence in the age of intelligent machines. A rare book that looks beyond the hype to expose the economic fragility beneath our accelerating future. Both sobering and essential.” Simon Lints, CEO Schroders Wealth Management
141 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2025
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January 17, 2026
This book explores the ramifications of AI and its growing threat to humanity as we know it. The author warns that AI has progressed further than the ordinary person is aware and sweeping changes are not far away. Its overall warning and cautionary tone are sprinkled with a couple of semi-optimistic chapters on the potential benefits of AI in education and health. I particularly liked the chapter on money, and the way each chapter starts with a reference to an historic character. The author defines two distinct periods – Before AI and Post AI. In the Post AI world, everything will carry the shadow of automation.
Overall, the book does a good job of exploring the dramatic changes heading our way due to the AI revolution and proposes several approaches to mitigate some of the risks.
Overall, the book does a good job of exploring the dramatic changes heading our way due to the AI revolution and proposes several approaches to mitigate some of the risks.
January 18, 2026
I really enjoyed Dear Future: You Can Keep the Change for its bite-sized, focused chapters. Each one looks at a different area where AI is likely to shape the future, which made the book easy to pick up, reflect on, and return to without feeling overwhelming.
What stood out most to me was how eye-opening it felt as a warning about where society may be headed if AI development continues unchecked. Ronee Hulk avoids hype and fear-mongering, instead offering grounded, thoughtful reflections that feel rooted in real human concerns. The book reads less like prediction and more like a series of conversations urging awareness, responsibility, and intentional change. Quietly thought-provoking and timely.
What stood out most to me was how eye-opening it felt as a warning about where society may be headed if AI development continues unchecked. Ronee Hulk avoids hype and fear-mongering, instead offering grounded, thoughtful reflections that feel rooted in real human concerns. The book reads less like prediction and more like a series of conversations urging awareness, responsibility, and intentional change. Quietly thought-provoking and timely.
January 20, 2026
AI is one of those topics of the hour that everyone is talking about, yet most people seem not to fully understand. This leads most commentators to skew to one of the extremes--either that AI is a flash in the pan that will disappear, or that it will take over our lives. I think many of us laypeople long for a balanced, intelligent, insightful take on what AI means to the world.
Ronee Hulk started to write just that in their book, Dear Future: You Can Keep the Change. Organized into chapters on application areas for AI, most of the book is just the kind of intelligent and balanced perspective that I (and I suspect many others) have been looking for.
The chapters on the potential in healthcare and education are insightful and balanced. They, along with chapters on societal and even religious implications, are well-researched and documented. (Interestingly, because this domain is so new and changes so quickly, well over 100 of the 125 endnotes were webpages.)
However, by the 10th of 11 chapters, the tone started to change. The language started becoming more dramatic and extreme, asserting ideas with very thin logic. For a book published in late 2025 to assert that "Building design, engineering and construction will be completed by humanoid robots, overturning the industry entirely. Craftspeople who work in specialist areas such as heritage restoration or the upkeep of older and listed buildings will last longer, but not forever. By 2030, even those roles will have gone." (p. 123) In less than five years, all physical buildings will be constructed by robots, and even specialist trades will be eliminated?!? Who will build the factories where the robots are built, and who will deploy and maintain the robots? This is a wild and unsupported assertion.
Hulk argues that because corporations won't need to hire people, their profits will grow, yet, as a result, "tax revenues falter, ...] (p. 110)
The ability of AI to "[find] the keys to unlock free energy, [which will lead to] the collapse of any residual scarcity [the basis for economics]." (p. 112) According to Hulk, energy is the only meaningful cost in economics, and if it becomes free, then every business is essentially infinitely scalable at no cost.
These alarmist statements--with no coherent logic--undermine the author's credibility.
Ultimately, I can recommend the book, but caution the reader that if they venture past the 9th chapter, they are in doubly uncharted territory.
Ronee Hulk started to write just that in their book, Dear Future: You Can Keep the Change. Organized into chapters on application areas for AI, most of the book is just the kind of intelligent and balanced perspective that I (and I suspect many others) have been looking for.
The chapters on the potential in healthcare and education are insightful and balanced. They, along with chapters on societal and even religious implications, are well-researched and documented. (Interestingly, because this domain is so new and changes so quickly, well over 100 of the 125 endnotes were webpages.)
However, by the 10th of 11 chapters, the tone started to change. The language started becoming more dramatic and extreme, asserting ideas with very thin logic. For a book published in late 2025 to assert that "Building design, engineering and construction will be completed by humanoid robots, overturning the industry entirely. Craftspeople who work in specialist areas such as heritage restoration or the upkeep of older and listed buildings will last longer, but not forever. By 2030, even those roles will have gone." (p. 123) In less than five years, all physical buildings will be constructed by robots, and even specialist trades will be eliminated?!? Who will build the factories where the robots are built, and who will deploy and maintain the robots? This is a wild and unsupported assertion.
Hulk argues that because corporations won't need to hire people, their profits will grow, yet, as a result, "tax revenues falter, ...] (p. 110)
The ability of AI to "[find] the keys to unlock free energy, [which will lead to] the collapse of any residual scarcity [the basis for economics]." (p. 112) According to Hulk, energy is the only meaningful cost in economics, and if it becomes free, then every business is essentially infinitely scalable at no cost.
These alarmist statements--with no coherent logic--undermine the author's credibility.
Ultimately, I can recommend the book, but caution the reader that if they venture past the 9th chapter, they are in doubly uncharted territory.
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