The Human Upgrade: How to Survive and Thrive in the Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

by HASE Fiero

Your attention has been captured. Your focus has been hacked. Your humanity is being downgraded.

Every buzz, ping, and scroll is not just a distraction. It is part of a vast, engineered system designed to keep you hooked, fragmented, and predictable. The result is a Silent Downgrade — the slow erosion of your ability to think deeply, choose freely, connect meaningfully, and act with sovereignty.

But there is another path.

In The Human Upgrade, HASE Fiero delivers the definitive field manual for reclaiming your mind in the age of AI. This is not another abstract warning. It is a practical, battle-tested training program based on cutting-edge neuroscience and strategic thinking. Drawing on the synthesis of over 40 previous works on information warfare, human transition, and intellectual enlightenment, this book doesn’t just inform you — it transforms you.

This manual is the culmination of a decade of research across three distinct bodies of work: the diagnostic exposure of the Information War, the personal journey of the Human Transition, and the visionary blueprint of Intellectual Enlightenment. For the first time, the complete architecture of the problem and the full spectrum of the solution have been distilled into a single, actionable playbook designed to upgrade your focus, future-proof your career, and restore genuine human connection in a world that seeks to automate it.

Why This Book? Why Now?

HASE Fiero has been on the frontlines of the Information War since 2003, when he first wrote OS.TV: The Convergence of Search, Media, and Internet. Over the last two decades, he has written tirelessly—articles, books, and now The Human Upgrade—to help Americans recognize the forces exploiting their attention and to equip them with tools to fight back.

This manual is the culmination of a decade of research across three distinct bodies of work:

• The Information War — exposing the hidden architecture of narrative control.

• The Human Transition — exploring how individuals can adapt to seismic social and technological shifts.

• Intellectual Enlightenment — a visionary blueprint for human sovereignty in the algorithmic age.

For the first time, these insights have been distilled into a single, actionable playbook designed to upgrade your focus, future-proof your career, and restore genuine human connection in a world determined to automate it.

A Scene You Already Know Too Well

The kitchen is quiet. Dinner is ready. But each family member is lost in a private screen: a child chasing digital points, a teen performing for strangers, a parent glued to a late-night email. Forks clink against plates, but conversation is gone.

This isn’t rebellion. It isn’t normal life.
It is capture.
It is the Silent Downgrade at work.

And it’s happening in millions of homes every night.

Your Wake-Up Call

The downgrade is silent. But your upgrade can be loud.

This book is your invitation to fight back—not as a partisan, not as a passive consumer, but as a sovereign mind. Because as information multiplies, it will either be curated and leveraged by you… or it will be weaponized against you.

Foreign adversaries, corporations, platforms, and elites are already riding this information wave to their advantage. The only question left is: will you?

The definitive field manual for surviving and thriving in the 21st century.