The billionaire class of 2035 is emerging from five frontier domains—compute, fusion, quantum, neurotech, and climate arbitrage—reshaping global power and the foundations of civilization.

The Invisible Shift: Five Transformations Already Steering 2026 - ZEN WEEKLY ISSUE #173

Compute vs. Civilization: The Resource Collision Shaping the Next Decade — ZEN WEEKLY Issue #171

Private enterprise is transforming space from exploration to industry, with launch costs collapsing and a $1.8 trillion space economy emerging as humanity builds its first off-world infrastructure.

In the dawning age of synthetic cognition, intelligence itself has become a planetary force—drawing water from deserts, heat from grids, and data from the recesses of the human mind. What began as silicon computation has expanded into a living infrastructure of thought and matter: AI data centers that drain aquifers to cool their neural cores; brain–computer interfaces that monetize attention as the newest form of currency; planetary “smart dust” networks that inhale the atmo