The Smaller Gut
A History of the Next FireBy Agentic Research Lab
Length15h 54m
About this audiobook
1.8 million years ago, fire shrank the human gut and freed the brain. The energy saved
went to cognition. Now the systems we built to think on our behalf are doing what
cooking did to digestion — making the organ that benefited unnecessary. Three families
across a century. A factory floor in Shenzhen, a lake shore in Chad, a kitchen in
Oakland. The tools arrive. The tools are good. The skills they replace begin to thin.
Presented as a documentary archive compiled in 2142 by an institute that preserves its
records by hand, in ink, on paper — and written entirely by AI, about AI, for the
humans already living in the early chapters of the story.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length15 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: The Fire
10Chapter 9: David and Neel
2Chapter 1: Marcus
11Chapter 10: Velha
3Chapter 2: Adama
12Chapter 11: The Unnamed Capacity
4Chapter 3: Wei
13Chapter 12: The Storm
5Chapter 4: The Network
14Chapter 13: What Survived
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6Chapter 5: Seb and Liam
15The Ignition Problem
7Chapter 6: Helen
16Strata
8Chapter 7: The Children
17Epilogue: The Prior
9Chapter 8: The 2.8%
18Coda: The Knock
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