Originally published on July 9, 2026, the article argues that the economic-growth imperative “invented” in the mid-20th century, wedded to unrestrained technological advancement, has become the sine qua non of modern society and is fueling dangerous advances in AI. It says humans have dominated the planet largely because of intelligence surpassing all other species, including other hominids, and that self-reinforcing systems have undermined the biosphere and our long-term survival. In the tech world, Mark Zuckerberg coined the Silicon Valley motto, “Move fast and break things,” and the pursuit of trillions of dollars in returns spurs a reckless culture. Safety experts warn with ever greater urgency that we may soon replace ourselves as Earth’s most intelligent species with another, silicon-based “species.” The article also cites Michael D.B. Harvey’s The Age of Humachines on Big Tech figures who want to meld humans with robots, a process of “humachination” threatening to the ontological core of humanness, with Harvey holding out hope that limits to growth and resource constraints will hamstring the project. It notes Alan Turing warned of machine intelligence’s dangerous potential, determined intelligence was “substrate independent,” and proposed the “Turing test” in 1950 to establish whether a machine could pass for a human in a verbal interaction.