Manual Transmission

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AI deployment, civic entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and how powerful tools and ideas land in the real world. The gap between what our social, civic, political, and material technology can do and what we actually use it for.

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  • Selected free posts on technology, policy, civic life, and how we create meaning from experience in contemporary America.

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  • Every post — including subscriber-only deep dives on how the mechanics of how powerful tools actually land in the real world.
  • Comments, community, and the occasional thread where I'm thinking out loud before it becomes a piece.

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $6.99 a month
  • $79.99 a year

About Zac Hill

Co-Founder & President, The Office of American Possibilities. Writer and creator, Manual Transmission; Calliope Knight. Everything it takes for America to become an engine of flourishing.

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