Notes from the Future: The Boredom of Being Right

The Cassandra Curse.
Years ago, writing a column for a corporate magazine (Russian Aluminium), I predicted the AI takeover. Then I predicted the rise of Bitcoin. Then decentralized communications.
It is becoming tedious to be right. There is a massive gap between predicting the future and enjoying it. Now I see the shifts in the Art Market, and honestly? It’s boring. Predicting is easy. Acting is hard.

The Death of the Process
Yesterday, Google released "Deep Research."
In the pause between coffees this Saturday morning, I decided to test it. I needed an academic-grade paper to open doors at European universities—a document that usually takes weeks of archival digging.
I fed the AI my 15-year history.

60 minutes later. Done.

A full dossier on "Internet Regulation," synthesized from my columns in the global press. I didn’t write a line. I just directed the flow.

This is not just efficiency. It is the end of the "hourly rate."

The Book
Status: 44,500 / 60,000 words.
Formally, the manuscript is alive. I am filling in the gaps—events I tried to forget, details that matter.
The text is ready. Now comes the slow dance with the analog world. I’ve sent 40 letters to literary agents. Next week, 30 more. I am looking for the one person in London who reads as fast as I write.

Updated proposal page.

The Press
I wrote a few new columns for Novaya Gazeta. They are stuck in the editorial pipeline. Maybe I missed a deadline, maybe the world missed a beat. It doesn’t matter. They will be out when they are out.

Personal Status
I am currently stuck in a blind spot on the map of Europe.
Surrounded by small ambitions and bad architecture.
Every day here feels like a layover in an airport that has closed for the night. I dream of the exit. But I don't just dream—I am building the door.
It will happen. I am very tired of the province. But that is a story for another time.

Let’s keep in touch.

Anton Merkurov