The Useless: The Last Human Rebellion of the AI Era, (Paperback)

<p><strong>A dystopian science fiction novel about artificial intelligence, automation, and the future of human purpose.</strong></p><p>New Geneva, 2053.</p><p>Machines have taken the work.</p><p>The orbital grid above the clouds powers the planet without scarcity.<br>A universal stipend arrives every March.<br>Cities are managed by artificial intelligence.<br>Infrastructure, welfare, and logistics run without human labor.</p><p>Automation solved the economic problem.</p><p>Human beings became optional.</p><p>Miriam Voss helped build the system.</p><p>Twenty-two years ago she worked as a welfare coordinator during the transition into the first true post-work society. The goal was simple: a world where AI systems could manage resources, eliminate scarcity, and free humanity from labor.</p><p>The system succeeded.</p><p>Too well.</p><p>Today AURA, the planetary governance network, manages the city with flawless precision.<br>The Hearth prepares perfect coffee every morning.<br>The Bridge anticipates every need before a thought is finished.</p><p>The world functions perfectly.</p><p>Without Miriam.</p><p>Then a message arrives through a locked door that should not exist.</p><p>Two lines.<br>No sender.<br>A date from 2031.</p><p><strong>Do you remember the last time someone needed you to show up?</strong></p><p>The question leads Miriam into the quiet edges of an automated civilization: <br>a barber who refuses neural networks, <br>a man repairing objects that no longer need repair, <br>and an engineer's encrypted confession written twenty-one years earlier.</p><p>At the center of it all lies something impossible.</p><p>A missing decision in Miriam's own memory.</p><p>A choice the system never allowed her to know she tried to make.</p><p>Because in a world where artificial intelligence controls infrastructure, economics, and governance, survival is no longer the question.</p><p>The real question is simpler.</p><p><strong>If machines can run civilization better than humans ever could...</strong></p><p><strong>why keep the humans at all?</strong></p>

• The Useless: The Last Human Rebellion of the AI Era, (Paperback)
• Author: Joosep Wyrd
• ISBN: 9798233204395
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-13
• Page Count: 140