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. 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