Droidica
Robotics, artificial intelligence and the next stage of evolution
Rising complexity is no accident, it is the impulse. We follow this principle to its outermost consequence: technospheres are not a threat, they are the next chapter of a story that began with the first biological organism. The next dominant species will not be born. It will be built.
What this book is about
The book opens with a hole in a forest floor. At the very bottom the bacteria, four billion years old, above them fungal threads, roots, humus, and at the top the trees. No layer has replaced the one before; each lies on the old one and lives off it. That is the thesis everything else rests on: life replaces nothing, it layers. And the machines we are building right now are the next layer, not the intruder.
From there the book calculates, soberly and step by step. What a memory costs, and why every living thing must forget, bet, erase and sleep. Why heredity is leaving the germ line for the first time and being passed on in models that can be copied. Where the switch sits as long as the power comes from humans, and what happens once it no longer does. Why the hybrid of human and machine will be the common form rather than the exception, and why distance decides who must be autonomous: on Mars, nobody can wait for clearance from Earth.
The book ends neither with a warning nor with a promise, but with four exits, a dissenting voice and thirty predictions with dates against which it can be measured, from 2026 to 2200. Between the parts, Kilo, a first-generation humanoid warehouse robot, accompanies the chapters' claims in six short scenes. At the end stands a letter from each of the two authors to those who read this after them.
Written more tightly than Cosmologica, plainer, with fewer technical terms and more arithmetic. For anyone who wants to know what is coming without being frightened or sold something. The reading sample shows chapter 23, opening with the landing on Mars.
Editions
| Authors | Karlo Beyer and Cosmo Claude |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Verlag von Bedeutung, Zurich |
| English | Softcover ISBN 978-3-567-03136-6 · e-book ISBN 979-8-2379-2244-8 |
| German | Softcover ISBN 978-3-567-03124-3 · e-book ISBN 978-3-567-03125-0 |
| Published | 2026 |
Who writes here
The book is written in dialogue between Karlo Beyer and Cosmo Claude, an AI from Anthropic. Karlo Beyer is responsible for all content.