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Front cover of Brilliance for All by Deepak R Chandran: the title in heavy black capitals inside a red rule on a cream ground

Brilliance for All

How Manufactured Scarcity Breaks, and Where It Migrates Next

Deepak R Chandran

Book One of the Brilliance Trilogy

Scarcity does not end. It moves.

Diamonds. Elite admissions. Generative AI. Three different worlds reveal a recurring struggle over who gets access, who confers legitimacy, and who benefits from exclusion.

In Brilliance for All, Deepak R Chandran examines four mechanisms that sustain manufactured scarcity: controlled supply, controlled narrative, stigmatized substitutes, and institutional reinforcement.

When technology makes something once exclusive widely available, what happens to the institutions built around keeping it scarce? And where does scarcity migrate next?

Details

Category
Economics / Technology / Society
Format
6 x 9 in paperback
Pages
about 238, final count to follow once the index is set
Paperback ISBN
979-8-9982330-0-5
Ebook ISBN
979-8-9982330-2-9
Publisher
Arika Publications

Contents

  • Introduction

Part I: The Illusion of Rarity

  • 1 The Stone and the Spell
  • 2 A Diamond Is Forever
  • 3 Blood and Stone

Part II: The Status Factory

  • 4 Who Gets In
  • 5 Selectivity and the Shadow Market

Part III: The Alchemists

  • 6 Diamonds from Nothing
  • 7 The Scarcity Pattern

Part IV: The Revolution

  • 8 The Market Responds
  • 9 Attention Is All You Need

Part V: What Is Real?

  • 10 A Hundred Million Users
  • 11 The Authenticity Question

Part VI: The New World

  • 12 The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
  • 13 Epilogue: Brilliance for All
  • A Note on Sources and Method
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

The author

Deepak R Chandran is an engineer, inventor, and founder working in power electronics, electric-vehicle infrastructure, and artificial intelligence. Brilliance for All is the first book of the Brilliance Trilogy.

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