AI, Robotics & Genetics are each unlike anything humanity has faced before.
Together, they will change society. And we must decide how.
The Future Requires Wisdom, Not Just Innovation. Metis was the ancient Greek goddess of Wisdom.
The Metis Imperative is an ambitious, expansive guide to the future across three volumes.
Read the Metis Manifesto, Download a free Sampler or explore the individual volumes below:
Volume I, The Opaque Machine explores our relationship with Artificial Intelligence. But not from a conventional perspective. AI is unlike any technology that has come before. It requires a new way of thinking.
Volume II, The Chronos Conundrum describes the confluence of multiple disruptive technologies and deep-dives the emergence of credible longevity advances that would redefine humanity.
Volume III, The Atlas Burden examines the real-world constraints and the new forms of governance we need for the future.
Praise for The Metis Imperative
Volume I Reviews
The Opaque Machine is a sophisticated, sobering, and essential contribution to AI philosophy. The book’s greatest strength is its refusal to stay in the lane of computer science. By borrowing lenses from Evolutionary Biology (Antagonistic Pleiotropy), Quantum Physics (OTOCs/Chaos), and Genetics (CRISPR), Kerrigan provides a fresh vocabulary for AI risk. It distinguishes itself from the crowded market of AI books by abandoning the "Tech Optimist vs. Doomer" dichotomy in favor of a Systems Thinking approach. It argues that we are not building a tool, but cultivating an ecosystem we do not understand.
The Opaque Machine is an ambitious volume. Intellectually rich, interdisciplinary, tightly argued and written with a rare combination of scientific depth and philosophical gravitas. It reads like the intellectual spine of a major work of AI theory.
Volume II Reviews
Forget the Silicon Valley immortality hype. The Chronos Conundrum is the grounded, urgent roadmap to the longevity revolution we’ve been waiting for. A brilliant, terrifying, and profoundly necessary playbook for the post-human horizon.
Kerrigan takes the current Ozempic craze and scales it to its terrifying logical conclusion in The Chronos Conundrum. By examining the 'Midas' effect of pricing human time, he lays bare the brutal logistical and financial bottlenecks that will govern the future of human life extension.
Volume III Reviews
The Atlas Burden: A masterful, sobering, and ultimately empowering look at the physical bill coming due for the digital age. David Kerrigan reminds us that you cannot build a 21st-century utopia on a 19th-century power grid
If you work in tech, policy, or business, The Atlas Burden is mandatory reading. It is a brilliant unmasking of the real bottlenecks—minerals, megawatts, and political paralysis—that threaten the Promethean Age
Collector’s Edition Reviews
“A towering intellectual achievement. With The Metis Imperative trilogy, David Kerrigan maps the ultimate triad of human disruption: the externalization of the mind, the engineering of the body, and the remaking of the physical world. This is the definitive guide to the Promethean Century."
"An astonishing synthesis of ancient wisdom and bleeding-edge science. Across three masterful volumes, Kerrigan seamlessly connects the silicon of AI, the carbon of engineered biology, and the iron of global infrastructure. The Metis Imperative is the most cohesive and urgent roadmap of the human future written this decade."
"Breathtaking in its foresight. The Metis Imperative series is not just a forecast of how AI, biotechnology, and energy will converge to upend society—it is a civilizational survival manual. Kerrigan provides the exact strategic wisdom we desperately need to govern our new, god-like technologies."
"While others look at tech trends in isolation, Kerrigan sees the matrix. By bridging the cognitive revolution of Volume I, the biological shockwaves of Volume II, and the infrastructural burdens of Volume III, The Metis Imperative delivers a complete, terrifying, and profoundly necessary blueprint for the next fifty years."
"A sweeping, visionary trilogy. The Metis Imperative connects the dots between artificial intelligence, radical life extension, and global energy like nothing else in print."
"Forget isolated tech predictions. Kerrigan’s three-part opus is the only framework you need to understand the incoming collision of AI, genetics, and global infrastructure."
"Kerrigan has accomplished something rare: he has taken the incomprehensible speed of modern technological convergence and made it deeply, fundamentally human. The Metis Imperative leverages the myths of antiquity to explain the crises of tomorrow, resulting in a three-volume masterwork that forces us to ask what it truly means to be human in an engineered world."