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In "The Future Comes Due: How the Costs of the AI Boom Reach Your Savings, Work, and Retirement," acclaimed economic analyst Hong Ki Park delivers a brilliant macro and social analysis of the artificial intelligence investment landscape. Serving as the crucial second volume in The AI Capital War series, this book bridges the gap between the corporate ledgers driving tech spending and the household bank accounts that ultimately pay for it.
While technical advancement is undeniable, Park shifts the spotlight from boardroom hype to the cold reality of capital markets, overstrained power grids, and changing labor dynamics. Through compelling economic frameworks, the author introduces two groundbreaking concepts:
The Maturity of Promises: The dangerous tipping point where flexible corporate forecasts turn into rigid debt maturities, hardware invoices, and long-term data-center leases before consumer demand is proven.
Institutional Insecurity: The systemic shifting of macro risk—unemployment, healthcare, housing, and pension erosion—from states and corporations directly onto individual personal balance sheets.
Drawing vital historical parallels to the British Railway Mania and the 1990s Dot-Com crash, "The Future Comes Due" proves that while useful infrastructure always survives, the capital structures that first financed it often fail. This book provides indispensable insights for investors, policymakers, and everyday readers trying to protect their retirement, wealth, and peace of mind from the collective overshoot of the AI race.
An essential read for understanding the political economy of artificial intelligence, macroeconomics, personal finance, and the structural future of labor.
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Hong Ki Park is an acclaimed economic analyst, engineer, and structural critic specializing in macroeconomics, capital markets, and the socioeconomic impacts of emerging technologies. He holds a Master's degree in Electronic, Electrical, and Computer Engineering, along with a Master's degree in Real Estate and Urban Planning from University. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. research in Smart Cities and Real Estate.
With a unique foundational background spanning industrial electrical engineering, semiconductor research, and corporate finance regulations, Park delivers a sharp, field-tested perspective on structural crises. He previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Suhyoung University. Currently, he operates the Daedong Urban Economic Research Institute and hosts a prominent economic analysis channel.
He is the bestselling author of "The Compound Recession 2027–2030," the "Basel III Moment" series, and the critically acclaimed investigative series "The AI Capital War" (Volumes 1 & 2), which explores the financial overexpansion and hidden systemic costs of the artificial intelligence boom.
