End Up Here

Largs Bay · South Australia

I’m a noticer.
I’m permanently curious.

I want to know what life will be like in 2036.

I work with emerging technology and think about the future through people, everyday life and the things worth noticing.

What’s new

Does superintelligence mean humans will never have to read a spreadsheet again?
12 written installments

At a glance

Four cities. One collection.

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Latest · 20 October 2026

What’s happening
at the moment.

12 · Work and superintelligenceDoes superintelligence mean humans will never have to read a spreadsheet again?Why ask an agent to prepare a report just to hand the thinking back to you? 11 · Journalism and public ideasKohler, King of Common SenseA twelve-part written series on housing, economic reasoning and AI, with sources and Martin’s response.\n 10 · Ideas and digital lifeWhy Is Nobody Talking About This?A proposed 12-part series starts with an ordinary shopping-bag charge and asks what world Martin’s digital self Nitram inhabits. 09 · Political economyIt’s Communism, Stupid!A 12-part inquiry asks what might happen to ownership, food and choice if the systems behind the supermarket stopped working. 08 · Image seriesMaking Fields VisibleTwenty image-led invitations to look at everyday things through patterns, forces and relationships. Some images move. 07 · Work and AIWho gets to shape intelligent systems?Oliver Philipp and the FES work on collective bargaining, worker voice and European technological sovereignty. 06 · People and superintelligenceThe interface may be the worldWhat changes when a person’s continuing digital presence connects with places that SI understands and manages? 05 · Language and possibilityWhy we say superintelligenceWords shape what we expect from intelligent technology. Here is our choice, and how we use it carefully. 01 · Privacy and agencyThe world that knows youWill the intelligence managing a post-aging world be our own mind in digital form? 01 · PhilosophyA developing personal philosophyReading, evolution, systems and the question of how to live. 02 · Spiritual lifeWhat happens to religion in abundance?A working question about meaning, ritual, community and the inner life. 03 · Tribute / Science HobbyistThe web as a workshopWilliam J. Beaty, practical models, traffic waves and the pleasure of making invisible systems visible. 04 · Capability / WorkshopThe Small WorkshopElectronics, science toys, robots and things to make, measure, repair and understand. 02 · GovernanceAI, democracy and shared powerWorking through what personal agents might mean for public life. 03 · Social rulesHow should shared systems work?Personal authority, public rules, appeals and the limits of automated power. 03 · Visitor pulseHow does the future feel to you?Share a view of what is coming, and what you hope it brings. 04 · Family / BeatrixBeatrixHealthcare, emerging technology and research.

01 / Orientation

Not a brand.
A living collection.

Martin Davies-Roundhill is a person who notices, keeps asking questions and stays curious about what life can become. He works with emerging technology and futurist ideas through ordinary lives, useful guides, vehicles with history and humane experiments with intelligent machines.

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AI illustration of Martin Davies-Roundhill thinking with people and robots
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The person behind the collection

Always curious.
Always asking why.

I am always trying to understand the future by understanding the past: how systems work, what we can genuinely know, and how ideas become part of ordinary life. I try to share what I have learned generously — especially about technology, but also about the wider world — while building a coherent, practical philosophy for living in it.

About Martin

02 / The store

Short guides.
Real knowledge.

Practical guides drawn from things actually done: building an AI agent, buying at auction, starting over, running a small business and preserving a life story.

Secure Stripe checkout · Every guide A$7.50

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KC2 · Casey Barnes / New Earth Car

The next
Kickstarter

Casey is building a complete, driveable New Earth Car demonstrator using practical fabrication, AI-assisted design, large-format 3D printing and robotic tools.

AU$7,500First vehicle-panel prototype
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The first New Earth project · campaign closed

The Free Earth
Manual

A practical field guide to living freely after compulsory work — the first project in a larger catalogue of tools, systems and possible lives.

AU$28,000Kickstarter funding goal
Read the completed campaign story

A project from the Melbourne AI community

LifeOS.
Try a calmer way
to run your life.

LifeOS brings schedule, goals, habits, health check-ins and reflection into one calm loop. It is in public preview, and the best way to support Teddy’s project is to try it with your own life and send back honest feedback.

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03 / Current projects

Things with a
story to tell.

00 Art & short filmsIllustrations and fleeting visual experiments 01 The world that knows youPersonal agents, intimacy and the right to remain unknowable 01 1993 Saab 900 CabrioletFinnish-built · Adelaide 02 ChipWitsThe disk that changed everything 03 Martin's philosophyA working position on life, freedom and knowledge 04 Finke Desert Race 2026A spectator’s field guide 05 People and RobotsHumanoid technology in service of care 06 New Earth CatalogTools and possible lives for the next world 07 The Small WorkshopElectronics, science toys, robots and practical capability 08 Future SignalsA quick pulse from visitors looking ahead 09 Space-Age HousesImagined homes for 2036 09 End Up Here PodcastIdeas, evidence and possible futures 09 LifeOSTry the calm operating layer for daily life 10 Melbourne AI HubA place to build with AI 11 Your StoryLife stories worth keeping 12 Sex, privacy and the socially visible selfAn inquiry into intimacy after agency 13 Pet hatesLanguage, logic and life 14 Social rules and social illsInteractive work on the systems we live by 15 Common Sense · Traffic WavesA small experiment in collective behaviour

A connected organisation

Technology should extend human care, not replace it.

People and Robots focuses on supporting carers of people with memory loss, combining memory preservation with careful evaluation of emerging humanoid systems.

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04 / Robot shopfronts

From the directory
to the workshop.

Robot PartsComponents, tools and spares Partner RobotsSix companion-robot leads Sex RobotsAdult intimacy technology catalogue · local copy Sex Robots · End Up HereThe same catalogue, hosted here

Free expression of interest

What would you ask a humanoid robot to do?

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One current conversation

Spirit, Consciousness & AI

A small-group conversation project in Largs Bay, available here for people who want to explore it.

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04 / Contact

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on your mind?

Ask about a guide, a vehicle, People and Robots, or an idea that does not fit neatly anywhere else.

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