Technological Singularity Is Here  ·  A Biographical Brief with Interwoven Concepts in Science  ·  By Ashok Mehan
The Mehan Dispatch
Science · Singularity · A Life Lived at the Edges

A weekly companion to Technological Singularity Is Here by Ashok Mehan — memoir and science, interwoven, from Washington, D.C.

Issue No. 5  ·  July 21, 2026
Nine Hundred Million Synthetic Souls
AI is not just replacing professional expertise. It is replacing the professionals themselves — with identities that don't eat, don't sleep, and don't make billing errors.
Collapse of the Professions · Synthetic Personas · Memoir: FedMine & The Frozen Weights
Issue No. 4  ·  July 14, 2026
The Professions Are Not Being Disrupted. They Are Being Decoupled From Value Itself.
Law, medicine, media, and finance built their authority on scarce expertise. AI just made expertise abundant.
The Collapse of the Professions · The Escape Risk · Memoir: FedMine
Issue No. 3  ·  April 14, 2026
The Universe Built You From Stardust. China Is Building the Future From Gigawatts.
A Carl Sagan calculation, a power grid comparison, and what it means to build something from nothing — twice.
Energy & Compute · The Sagan Calculation · Memoir: SMAC & FEDMINE
Issue No. 2  ·  April 7, 2026
When the Machine Becomes Its Own Teacher
Recursive self-improvement, the end of human excellence, and a Plymouth Duster that got me pulled over five times.
Recursive Self-Improvement · Wealth & Inequality · Memoir: Cleveland
Issue No. 1  ·  March 31, 2026
Forty Years Late, and Right on Time
The AI era I enrolled for in 1987 has finally arrived — and everything that happened in between was preparation.
The Threshold · Pain & Entropy · Memoir: India to Miami