Machines no longer just answer us. They act for us. AI agents now purchase, schedule, negotiate, hire, and coordinate other machines under authority few of us remember granting. The Delegated Life examines that transfer: how artificial intelligence came to hold our credentials, make our decisions, and act in our name — and what it takes to keep meaningful human control. The series opens with The Delegated Life: Who Answers When Machines Act, which follows delegated authority through our workplaces, homes, markets, infrastructure, and wars — and sets out six conditions that separate governable delegation from quiet surrender:
The power to inspect what was done in your name
The power to reverse it
The power to contest it
The power to consent — meaningfully, not by default
The power to survive failure
The power to hold someone accountable
Because agentic AI is evolving faster than any single book can capture, the series grows with the field. Future volumes examine individual themes at closer range — machine identity and credentials, the delegated workplace, AI as infrastructure, machine-speed conflict — and speak directly to the readers who must govern these systems: executives, policymakers, practitioners, and citizens. Each book stands alone. Read together, they form a running record of the most consequential handover of our time — and a practical guide to keeping it ours.
Inside the book: twelve chapters tracing the rise of agentic AI from tools to delegates — the delegated workplace, the delegated self, machine-speed conflict, Artificial Intelligence as infrastructure, ownership and law, the unequal revolution — closing with the six conditions for meaningful human control and the antipatterns that quietly defeat it. Fully sourced, with notes and bibliography; illustrative scenarios are clearly labelled as composites.
Written for executives, policymakers, technologists, and every reader who has begun handing decisions to machines — and wants to remain the author of their own life.
Book 1 of The Delegated Life series. Each volume stands alone.
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A Sequential Dreams anthology inspired by the Interstellar theme. Instrumental Electronic Cinematic music. Ethereal soundscapes provide ambience while synthesizer sequences are pierced by synth leads, and electric guitars. Warning, listeners may experience some moments of tangerine dreaming.
Released May 17, 2024
bordersedge.bandcamp.com/album/interstellar
Featuring contributions from former Tangerine Dream Guitarist Bernhard Beibl, synths from Johan Tronestam, and Celestial View. All tracks, synths, arrangements, and production by Sequential Dreams' Ron Charron.
(c) 2013-2022 Sequential Dreams.
(P) 2013-2024 Borders Edge Music.
You can find the original source albums for this compilation at Bandcamp, with Sequential Dreams albums: Star Lost, The Exodus Wave, L3G4CY, Legends, and Fantastic Stories.
Instrumental Electronic Rock anthology of the Midnight Airship project celebrating 10 years since the first album. Music with an eclectic range of styles including eRock, Progressive, with Ambient soundscapes with some 'Floydian' moments.
https://bordersedge.bandcamp.com/album/dark-star-rising-2
Just released, with Arend Westra (Netherlands), Eric "the" Taylor (US), Ron Charron (Canada). With touches of Floydian slips, Gabriel yesterdays, and a bit of Tangerine Dreaming influences. Give it a try!
This Midnight Airship anthology includes a new Midnight Airship track called "Forces of Nature" with Eric "the" Taylor, and new Instrumental versions for "Dark Star Rising", "Lost in a Dream" with Arend Westra, and Crazy Days; remixed and mastered specifically for this album. "Midnight Airdrop", "Money for your Soul": Previously published on Midnight Airship album "A River Once Flowed Here". "For Whom the Bell Tolls" previously published on album: "Learning to Fly". "Orbital Maneuvers" included in this anthology was first introduced as a "Midnight Airship" contribution to the Sequential Dreams album "L3G4CY".
All tracks composed, performed, mixed, and mastered by Ron Charron (with contributions from guest artists as mentioned).
All Midnight Airship albums are available on: Midnightairship.bandcamp.com
(c) 2014-2024 Midnight Airship
(p) 2014-2024 Borders Edge Music
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When you know you shouldn’t have opened..
Pandora’s Box!
A collection of electronic instrumental music from The Roboter, and Sequential Dreams projects. A kraftwerking retro-dreaming synthesizer feature!
Anthology compilation released May 3, 2024This compilation selected carefully chosen tracks from Borders Edge Music projects: The Roboter, and Sequential Dreams. The Roboter: Trans-Europa Infobahn, and The Motoko files. Sequential Dreams: The Infinite Divide, Metamorphic Waves, and Starlost.
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CYBER PROPHECY
Meet Major Motoko, a soul sculpted from the nexus of technology and humanity. In a city pulsating with neon lights and digital shadows, she embarks on a journey that is as much about tactical prowess against cyber threats as it is a deeply personal quest for identity. Motoko's story unfolds in a New Shinjuku that has emerged from the ruins of war, reborn through the symbiotic fusion of flesh and cybernetics.
In this future, technology is not a mere extension of self but the very fabric of being. As Motoko navigates a landscape where cybernetic enhancements are the norm, she confronts an enigmatic entity, the Platinum Prophet, whose revelations challenge the very nature of consciousness. The story weaves a rich tapestry of ethical dilemmas, existential questions, and the eternal human struggle for meaning and connection.
"The Motoko Files - Cyber Prophecy" is more than just a nod to the cyberpunk genre; it is a narrative that resonates with the questions and possibilities of our current technological era. It projects them into a future that is both imaginative and unsettlingly plausible. With its blend of action, introspection, and visionary technology, this novella is a must-read for fans of cyberpunk and the "Ghost in The Shell" series, and for anyone intrigued by the intersection of technology with the human spirit.
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New: The Future Equation: Quantum Overdrive
Book 1 of a new Scifi Book Series:
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A New SCI-FI BOOK SERIES
Book 1: Quantum Overdrive
At a nexus point between world conflict, and an imminent celestial event, researchers at the Quantum AI Institute have unlocked the door to time and space and must choose between humanity being thrown back into the stone age or thrust it forward towards its next stage of evolution.
As a secret government project works through NASA Artemis Mission to set up the Quantum AI Matrix, the world’s most advanced AI fuelled by a dark matter fusion reactor establishes a Quantum tunnel linking the Earth and the Moon. Named as Sarah, the Quantum AI Institutes’ fast-evolving AI works with Mel Jasper to save the Moon base before it’s too late. Will Mel make the ultimate leap into the unknown to save her family and possibly… all of humanity?
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Short story audiobook and music soundtrack (2014)
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A Sequential Dreams anthology inspired by the Interstellar theme. Instrumental Electronic Cinematic music. Ethereal soundscapes provide ambience while synthesizer sequences are pierced by synth leads, and electric guitars. Featuring contributions from former Tangerine Dream Guitarist Bernhard Beibl, synths from Johan Tronestam, and Celestial View. All tracks, synths, arrangements, and production by Sequential Dreams' Ron Charron.
released May 17, 2024
Featuring contributions from former Tangerine Dream Guitarist Bernhard Beibl, synths from Johan Tronestam, and Celestial View. All tracks, synths, arrangements, and production by Sequential Dreams' Ron Charron.
(c) 2013-2022 Sequential Dreams.
(P) 2013-2024 Borders Edge Music.
You can find the original source albums for this compilation here, with Sequential Dreams albums: Star Lost, The Exodus Wave, L3G4CY, Legends, and Fantastic Stories.