2026 · Baseline edition
What Is Happening Now?
The first Almanac establishes the map: what has already changed, what pressures are building, and what a person needs to understand to navigate the present.
Open the 2026 edition →Understand what is changing · Decide what matters · Navigate what comes next
THE A.I.
ALMANACA practical guide to finding your way through a world changing faster than most of us can process.
This is not another book about A.I. It is about your life in a world being reshaped by technology, economics, politics, culture and social change: what is happening, what it could mean for you, and how to make better decisions without drowning in noise.
The point
A map for real life.
The Almanac is built for the person trying to work out how to live, choose and plan while the ground keeps moving. It translates large, messy changes into questions that matter in ordinary life.
What is actually changing?
Separate durable change from hype, panic, sales pitches and the story of the week.
What does it mean for me?
Connect big trends to work, money, housing, education, relationships, health, freedom and opportunity.
What should I do with that?
Give the reader enough context to make better choices without pretending anyone can predict the future perfectly.
The A.I. in the title is part of the method. A.I. is used to help interrogate evidence, compare systems, surface contradictions and keep the map current. The destination is human understanding, not technology worship.
Annual editions
One series.
A changing map.
Each edition preserves the previous year's baseline and asks a harder question. The aim is to help readers orient themselves as the world changes, rather than discovering years later that the rules changed while nobody was looking.
The A.I. Almanac2027International expansion
2027 · In development
Does the world look the same from somewhere else?
The second edition makes the map harder to fool by widening the evidence beyond a mainly British and Western starting point, with China and East Asia as a recurring comparison.
Open the 2027 research page →Series development
Three questions.
The architecture is cumulative. The reader gets a clearer map each year: first the present, then different perspectives on it, then a genuinely world-conscious view.
2026
WHERE ARE WE?
Establish the baseline and map, predominantly Britain and the West in evidence base.
2027
DOES THE WORLD LOOK THE SAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE?
Turn the map outward, with China and East Asia becoming a recurring comparative lens.
2028
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HUMAN BEINGS ACROSS THE WORLD?
Move towards a fully world-conscious Almanac examining major subjects across relevant systems and regions.
What the Almanac tracks
Your world, not just A.I.
Artificial intelligence is one powerful force among many. The real subject is the changing world you have to live in: where technology meets bills, jobs, homes, relationships, health, information and the choices in front of you.
WorkJobs, automation, wages, careers and what skills may still matter.
MoneyIncome, prices, debt, security and the cost of building a life.
HousingRent, ownership, affordability and changing living conditions.
EducationWhat learning and qualifications are worth when skills change quickly.
RelationshipsDating, intimacy, loneliness, friendship and social connection.
HealthWellbeing, care, ageing and the pressures placed on everyday life.
InformationWhat to trust when media, synthetic content and attention are contested.
TechnologyA.I., automation, access, capability and who gains power from them.
FamilyPartnership, fertility, household formation and the economics around them.
MeaningBelief, identity, purpose and what people turn to when old certainties weaken.
CohesionTrust, institutions, community and whether society still feels navigable.
GovernanceRules, rights, regulation and how governments respond to rapid change.
A.I. as a navigation instrument
Use the technology to understand the age.
The Almanac deliberately uses A.I. in the research process to help examine large bodies of evidence, compare countries and systems, identify contradictions, test assumptions and follow fast-moving developments. Human editorial judgement decides what belongs, what remains uncertain and what matters to the reader.
Find the signal
Use A.I. to search across complex evidence and expose connections that are easy to miss when subjects are studied in isolation.
Challenge the answer
Claims are checked against primary sources, independent evidence and competing interpretations rather than accepted because a model produced them.
Bring it back to life
The final question is always practical: what does this change for a person trying to build a workable life?