About

Empower everyone to prosper in a free cognitive world. Prepare humanity to reach the stars.

That is the mission, and it is the filter for everything published and built here.

Future Frontiers is a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc., Austin, Texas.

The view

AI, robotics and space are merging into one force, and together they define the most transformative wave in humanity’s story. Intelligence is becoming abundant, and organizations are dissolving into fluid networks of humans and agents, some of which are gaining bodies as robots. And this economy is beginning to extend beyond Earth.

These systems should be chosen, not imposed.

The founder

Bert Kastel

Bert Kastel

Founder · Entrepreneur and futurist

  • Over 30 years in enterprise computing, running startups and service and product organizations for Global 2000 customers.
  • A decade of experience in exponential technologies, the geopolitical implications of technology, blockchain, AI and robotics.
  • Serial technology entrepreneur who has lived and worked around the world.
  • Researches transformative technologies and builds the products and strategies that help people and organizations adapt.

Books: Regime Change (2024), the next ten years of technology transformation. Techtonic Shifts, the first non-fiction book written by an AI, published two years before ChatGPT.

The projects

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