The Crossroads Generation

What happens to people when AI can do most of the work?

The author, a project manager in Korean system-integration projects, once ended a work contract believing the problem of making a living was solved for good. Standing on a 19th-floor balcony watching people hurry to work, the author felt superior - and then could not get out of bed in the morning. Years later, working with AI every day, the author realized many more people may soon stand on that balcony, not by choice but because the work is gone.

Written as a personal essay and grounded in checked facts, this book asks what separates a utopia - keeping the life we have now - from a dystopia, where work disappears but no share of the wealth arrives.

What this book covers:

• Why you should watch the speed of AI, not its current level
• How approval turns into rubber-stamping, and what it cost in a real war
• Why basic income is hard, and why AI is not "oil" a nation owns
• The generation caught in the Industrial Revolution - and us
• Checklists for individuals, society, and nations
• What AI needs besides being "smarter"