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A forthcoming book by Ramy Nassar · Page Two · Early 2027

The World After AI

Optimism, Agency, and Our Next Chapter

A book about the choices that decide what AI becomes, and the part you get to play in them. It opens by refusing the one question everyone else asks.

The World After AI book cover Coming Early 2027

Is AI good or bad?

That is the wrong question, and it is the one question this book will not answer. Nobody asks whether electricity is good or bad. We ask who has it, who does not, what we wire it to, and who decides. The question is who decides.

So ask it something real.

Type a real question, the kind you would actually want answered. It will not tell you whether AI is good or bad.

I answer from the book, in its own voice, and everything I tell you is really in it. Ask me something real.

The shape of the book.

It moves through four worlds, in order. Not a manual, an argument, with a beginning, a turn, and a choice at the end.

  1. 1
    The World We’re Entering

    What is actually changing now, and why this wave is not like the ones that came before it.

  2. 2
    The World We’re Building

    Domain by domain: how we learn, heal, work, create, trust, connect, and govern.

  3. 3
    The World We’re Leaving Behind

    The cost of drift, and the billions the old system already left out.

  4. 4
    The World That’s Coming

    Two possible Tuesdays, and what to actually do on the Monday before.

Open the book to a random page.

No table of contents, no skipping to the end. Just a real page from somewhere inside, opened at random. Every chapter begins on a true story.

Chapter 1 · The Room That Disappeared

In 1894, a textile factory in the American South did something its owners believed would change everything.

They dismantled the steam engine.

It had powered the building for decades, a massive, smoke-belching machine that drove a system of overhead shafts and leather belts running to every loom and spindle on every floor. The engine was the heart of the factory, and everything was arranged around it. The building itself had been designed to serve it: compact, multi-story, cramped, every machine positioned not where the work needed it but where the belts could reach.

In its place, the owners installed an electric motor.

Edison had lit up Pearl Street in Manhattan twelve years earlier. The technology was proven and the cost was falling. The promise was irresistible: cheaper power, cleaner air, a modern plant for a new century.

The chapter keeps going. Read the rest when it lands →

One Tuesday in 2035, lived twice.

The book takes one ordinary Tuesday in 2035 and lives it twice: the same five lives, once in a future we designed on purpose, once in one we let happen by default.

The Designed Tuesdaythe one we choose

What we get if we make the hard choices now, and decide on purpose how AI fits into the way we live, work, learn, and connect.

The Default Tuesdaythe one we drift into

What we get if we take the path of least resistance, and let AI quietly reshape all of it by default, with no one ever choosing it.

Both are possible. Neither is inevitable. Same year, same tools, two completely different days. Which one we wake into is being decided now.

Step into the Two Tuesdays →
Be there for the one we choose.

The book, in four numbers.

4.5billion

people the modern economy has always left on the outside

The largest group on earth, and the first technology that could actually include them, or leave them further behind.

300,000years

for all of human history, every tool only extended our bodies

AI is the first one that extends the mind itself, which is why this moment is not like the others.

98percent

of a class is outscored by the one child who gets a personal tutor

One-on-one tutoring is the most powerful tool we have in education. For forty years only the wealthy could afford it. AI could finally put it within reach of every child.

83percent

could not quote a single line of the essay they had just written with AI

Researchers named it cognitive debt: when you let the tool do the thinking, the thinking never becomes yours.

Be there when it lands.

Five people. Five continents. One ordinary Tuesday.

You meet them at dawn and follow the light around the world. Not a forecast. Five lives, close enough to be yours.

5:47 AM Amira a student Amman, Jordan

A 14-year-old. Her AI tutor does the explaining, so her teacher has the time to do the noticing.

6:15 AM Maria a corn farmer the Sacred Valley, Peru

A farmer. Her phone can name any crop disease in seconds; her instinct still knows which neighbor to call.

7:02 AM Dr. Priya a rural doctor Karnataka, India

A rural doctor. The AI takes the diagnosis off her plate, which hands her back the patient.

9:00 AM David a former analyst London

An analyst whose job the machine took. He retrained into the human work a machine cannot do.

4:15 PM Jamal a teenager Detroit, USA

A teenager with a flawless AI companion at home, and a friend a real, eleven-minute walk away.

Meet them, hour by hour →

Who is writing this?

Keynote speaker · futurist · former Head of Innovation at Mattel

Ramy Nassar

Ramy Nassar is a keynote speaker and futurist who has spent twenty-five years inside the rooms where the future gets decided. He was Head of Innovation at Mattel, helped shape the team behind a billion-dollar film, and has guided more than 250 organizations through technological change, among them Apple, TD Bank, Verizon, New Balance, and the Government of Canada.

He keynotes conferences and leadership gatherings around the world on AI, agency, and designing the future instead of bracing for it, and he teaches at universities in Canada and Europe. His through-line is simple: stop reacting to disruption, and start designing it.

The World After AI is his case that the future is not something that happens to us. It is something we build, one ordinary Tuesday at a time.

Bring this conversation to your stage →

The World After AI book cover

Core ideas from the book

The Agency Window

The stretch of time in which our choices still shape what AI becomes. It is open right now, and it will not announce when it closes.

Step inside →

For event organizers

Bring this conversation to your stage.

Ramy keynotes on exactly this: AI, agency, and designing the future instead of bracing for it. If you are planning an event, tell him about it.

Or see the full speaker details at ramynassar.com.