AGE OF TRANSITION & THE MENTAL SINGULARITY
Free Book: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18735660 Public International Law at the Edge of Structural Obsolescence For jurists of Public International Law, the defining transformations of the 21st century will not be incremental treaty revisions or doctrinal refinements. They will be structural. Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), autonomous robotics, molecular-scale production, and high-bandwidth neurotechnology are dissolving the material assumptions upon which the Westphalian order was constructed. This book presents a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of that dissolution. The classical architecture of international law presupposes scarcity: finite resources, territorially bounded jurisdiction, labor-based economies, and strategic rivalry among sovereign states. From 1648 onward, sovereignty functioned as a rational organizing principle for managing competition under constraint. Territorial integrity, non-intervention, and jurisdictional exclusivity provided pre...