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DRAM.GOLD
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A→C
3 artefacts · 2026 · human-authored / AI-assisted

THE SHELF, IN NARRATIVE ORDER: FEAR. EMPIRE. SEQUEL.

A reading sequence, not a claim about the order of writing. Futuroshock asks how to keep your agency. The NVIDIA Innovator’s Dilemma asks where a leading platform might go next. Revolut, not? asks what a licensed financial business might become with AI.

Artefacts3 / 2026
OrderA → B → C
AuthorSLAVA SOLODKIY
ModeWRITING = LEARNING
Open the shelf ↓ The book's site ↗ academic archive ↗

read them in order — A, then B, then C. the circuit also runs backwards.

⚠ THE SEQUENCE NO LONGER RESOLVES
The NVIDIA Innovator’s Dilemma — 3D cover
shelf 2026human-authored / AI-assistedscan 003
FEAR → EMPIRE → SEQUEL ◆ FUTUROSHOCK.AI ◆ DRAM.GOLD ◆ REVOLUT.HOT ◆ THE BUG BECOMES THE FEATURE ◆ COMPUTE × INSTITUTIONS ◆ AUTHORITYCLAW — 1ST PLACE ◆
THE LOGIC · WHY THIS ORDER PREQUEL → MAIN → SEQUEL
[00]NOT A BIBLIOGRAPHY — A SEQUENCE

One question, handed to three actors.

Each artefact takes the same anxiety to a different layer of the stack — and each leaves its answer as homework for the next.

A
// PREQUEL — THE FEAR

Futuroshock

AI — and the NVIDIA hype around it — started moving faster than our ability to metabolise it. The author got scared, like part of society. The task: understand the fear, work it through, turn the bug into a feature.

B
// MAIN — THE EMPIRE

The NVIDIA Dilemma

A leading platform changes what others can attempt. Where might that platform find its own next opportunities — and which assumptions in the argument fail under challenge?

C
// SEQUEL — THE LICENSE

Revolut, not?

How could a fintech leader become an AI business with banking licences? The connection is the institutional question — not a claim that a competition tested Revolut’s production systems.

Futuroshock — When Reality Gets Outsourced, by Slava Solodkiy.
A / futuroshock.ai / human agency
PREQUEL — READ FIRST

Futuroshock

When Reality Gets Outsourced — AI Euphoria, AI Nausea, and the Fight to Remain the Author of Your Own Life

The fear came first. Before the audit of the compute empire, there was the vertigo: AI — and the NVIDIA hype around it — scaling faster than our ability to metabolise it. Futuroshock is the attempt to understand that fear, work through it in public, and turn the bug into a feature. The central problem of AI is not intelligence. It is authorship.

Agency shockAI nauseaAuthorshipSynthetic realityFive clocks
futuroshock.ai ↗ Amazon UK ↗ Amazon US ↗ DOI ↗
“The future does not arrive anymore. It autocompletes.”
Identifiers, editions and companion material

Identifiers

Kindle ASIN B0H5L8D6XN
Paperback ISBN 9798181990333
Hardcover ISBN 9798182013727
eBook ISBN not yet issued
DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.32688468

Read / inspect

Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions, plus a concept atlas, source library and public deck.

SlideShareSpotify companion
The NVIDIA Innovator’s Dilemma — the published edition.
B / dram.gold / the compute empire
MAIN — THE BOOK

The NVIDIA
Innovator's
Dilemma

AI Factories, the Compute Empire, and the Disruption from Below

A Christensen-inspired inquiry into NVIDIA’s success, the pressures it may create and five possible directions for growth. The October afterword follows what changed in the evidence — and what the author built next.

AI factoriesCUDADePINBrownfield energyDisruption theory
dram.gold ↗ thesis site ↗ All stores ↗ Amazon UK ↗ Amazon US ↗ DOI ↗
“The dilemma does not forgive flinching.”
Identifiers, editions and companion material

Identifiers

eBook ISBN 9798235142671
Kindle ASIN B0GZ42SBNY
Paperback ISBN 9798195009434
Hardcover not yet published
DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.32133316

Read / watch / listen

Sixteen chapters, a prologue and a Coda. Paperback and eBook, free web reading, and an October afterword.

SlideShareeBay UK
Europe’s First Trillion-Dollar Startup? — Revolut, not? by Slava Solodkiy.
C / revolut.hot / licensed ambition
SEQUEL — WHERE THE MONEY GOES

Europe’s First
Trillion-Dollar
Startup?

Revolut, not?

(i) THE CONNECTION — NVIDIA’s infrastructure question meets the institutional question: how does a licensed financial business turn AI capability into useful, permitted action?

FintechTrust OSEuropeRevolutLicensed AIDevil’s advocate
revolut.hot ↗ thrillion.eu ↗ All stores ↗ Amazon UK ↗ Amazon US ↗ DOI ↗
Apple Music mixtape ↗ Spotify episode ↗ Bank for banks podcast ↗
◆ AuthorityClaw — 1st place, NVIDIA competition Selected First Place · NVIDIA Claw Agent Challenge: London · fictional-business payments demo → solodkiy.cv/authorityclaw ↗
“It became a noun. It still talks like a verb.”
Identifiers, editions and companion material

Identifiers

eBook ISBN 9798235275867
Kindle ASIN B0H6K7FR4K
Paperback ISBN 9798184250588
Hardcover ISBN 9798184250809
DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.32782464

Read / watch / listen

Distributed in eBook, paperback and hardcover formats. The project also has a public book site, speculative twin, playlist, podcast and slide deck.

Borrowed Sound42yo filmSlideShareeBay UK
ONE SHELF / THREE QUESTIONS THE CIRCUIT
[05]ONE SHELF · THREE QUESTIONS

Read them as a circuit.

The order is a recommendation, not a cage — but the hand-offs are real. Each book leaves its answer as homework for the next.

A

Who authors the human?

Futuroshock starts inside the skull: the fear of AI that arrived before any audit could. Work the fear through; keep the pen.

→ OPEN THE PREQUEL B

Who owns the machine?

The NVIDIA Innovator’s Dilemma follows power into chips, energy, orchestration — and asks what else could be built there.

→ OPEN THE MAIN C

What can a licence become?

Europe’s First Trillion-Dollar Startup? asks whether a licensed fintech can turn AI experiments into AI leadership — without losing the meaning of the licence.

→ OPEN THE SEQUEL

run it backwards and it still works — that is the point of a circuit

METHOD / BOUNDARY OWNED BY A HUMAN
[06]METHOD / BOUNDARY

Written with machines. Owned by a human.

These artefacts were developed in active dialogue with AI systems: as research assistants, adversarial editors, structural mirrors, design tools and occasionally very confident sources of nonsense.

AI-assisted does not mean responsibility-assisted. The author chooses the thesis, verifies the factual floor, decides what survives, signs the work and remains accountable for every published claim.

The companion sites are part of the artefacts rather than marketing wrappers: they expose source libraries, caveats, argument maps, updates, alternative readings and the material that did not fit cleanly between two covers.

F

Fact

Identifiers, editions, sources and live links should be checkable.

I

Inference

Interpretation must remain visibly separate from reported fact.

?

Provocation

Speculation earns its place by revealing constraints, not by impersonating certainty.

H

Human responsibility

The final editorial decision cannot be delegated to autocomplete.

THE LONGER RECORD NOT THE WHOLE ARCHIVE

Three artefacts are not the whole archive.

Older research reports, working papers, academic profiles and professional history remain on the academic CV — plus the experiment that continues one of the questions.

academia ↗ authorityclaw ↗ figshare ↗ ORCID ↗