The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman
View on GoodreadsThe coming decade could be the most productive in history. That said, Suleyman, writing with Michael Bhaskar, argues that AI and synthetic biology will also bring major social upheaval and threaten the nation-state, and that keeping control of technologies that spread this fast is the defining problem of the era you live in.
Core ideas
- The containment problem: Once released, technologies like these proliferate quickly, which makes them fundamentally hard to keep under anyone's control.
- The same wave: The gains arrive together with new dangers, including weaponized biological agents and AI-driven surveillance.
- Four levers: Containment combines international cooperation, responsibility from industry, technical safety measures and a cultural shift toward restraint.
Published2023
Pages332
ISBN9780593593950
ReadJun 2025





