Succession Workbench

Synthesize post-AI macro constraints & vectors

Scenario Archetypes

Grid Power Headroom 4500 TWh

Global generation allocated to inference & physical compute

Hardware Actuation Cost $12k/unit

Marginal capex for autonomous humanoid robotics

Attention Monetization Pressure 74%

Invasive ad-tech capture (gaze-tracking & unskippable layers)

Compute Scaling Efficiency 1.8x/yr

Algorithmic & neuromorphic FLOPS/Watt breakthrough

Policy & Alignment Damping 30%

Regulatory friction, UBI mandates, and safety guardrails

Epoch Phase-State Transition Model

Dynamic force-directed vector paths with active bottleneck flow

Embodied Humanoid Robotics Dominant

Temporal Horizon Projection

Scrub to project cascading succession events

2050

2026 2070

Calculated real-time operational indicators

Energy Burden 4.5k TWh

Autonomy Quotient 82%

Attention Intrusion 74%

System Fragility 38%

PRIMARY SUCCESSION REGIME

Embodied Humanoid Robotics

Intelligence migrates out of glass screens into physical actuators, automated warehousing, construction androids, and domestic kinetic labor.

"AI integration into androids... they will be given physical bodies, and then who knows." — r/AskReddit

Transition Bottleneck

⚠️ Actuator torque density & solid-state battery scaling.

Epoch	Trigger Threshold	Labor Impact	Risk Vector
Embodied Robotics	Actuation < $20k	Total kinetic displacement	Physical kinetic runaway
15M Merits Ad-Trap	Monetization > 70%	Attention-for-subsistence	Total cognitive capture
Grid Thermal Wall	Energy > 6,000 TWh	Compute rationing	Civil infrastructure strain
Bio-Synthetic Leap	Compute > 3.5x scaling	Bio-computational synthesis	Uncontained synthetic biology
Sticks & Stones Cycle	Fragility > 80%	Pre-industrial reboot	Existential civilizational reset