The West’s katechon is impotent without frontier cities.

Frontiers do not forgive bad governance.

Getting governance right is the difference between becoming indispensable and becoming irrelevant.

That is why we are thinking about it now.

In artificial intelligence research, the “bitter lesson,” a term coined by the computer scientist Rich Sutton, refers to a hard-won empirical truth. Systems that rely on scale, general methods, and learning from experience consistently outperform systems built around handcrafted intelligence, bespoke rules, or elegant theory. A

The same lesson applies far beyond machines. It applies to cities. It applies to institutions. It applies to civilisation itself.

The question is no longer whether economic activity will extend beyond Earth, but how that activity becomes economically real.

Dark fibre powered the modern internet economy.

Dark grid capacity will power the physical AI economy.

Why the West needs a new BEIC.

Data centres in space.

The answer to Cardwell’s Law.

Why Winning Requires More Than Just Upgrading Our Existing Cities.

Cities as Engines for Ascending the Kardashev Scale.

How we revive the West.

Sarah Paine defines grand strategy with characteristic clarity:

“Grand strategy is the integration of all relevant instruments of national power in the pursuit of national objectives.”

The West’s next and necessary grand strategy is the deliberate construction of [Sci-Fi] cities.

The Foundation is Seldon’s answer. It is an institution designed to preserve and propagate technological and organisational capability at the frontier while the centre decays. The West must do the same.