MEANING BY DESIGN

What if the greatest technological achievement in history was also the beginning of the end of human choice?
Soren helped build the systems that made the modern world effortless. They predict what people want, guide what they do, and remove friction before uncertainty has time to become a life of its own. The result is a society that feels smoother, smarter, and more efficient than ever before.
Then the system reaches a threshold no one thought possible.
As institutions race to deploy it across education, cities, policy, and ordinary life, Soren begins to see what others call progress in a different light. Convenience is becoming control. Prediction is becoming preemption. And the more perfectly the world responds, the less room remains for a human being to arrive unfinished.
To walk away would cost him everything he built. To stay would mean helping finalize a future in which meaning itself may be engineered out of life.
MEANING BY DESIGN is a provocative near-future science fiction novel about technology, identity, freedom, and the fight to protect the last space where a human life can still become its own.