A hardcover copy of Bread from Dirt on a writing desk beside a rain-streaked window

A novella by Leonel Togniolli

Bread
from Dirt

A machine that can make almost anything. A release no government can contain. One woman who recognizes the anonymous inventor.

Literary science fiction Available in English and Portuguese

The world changes quietly at first

Everything became copyable.
Except trust.

Fifteen years after leaving the man who chose an impossible machine over their life together, Bia sees a chipped spoon in a viral video and knows who it was that just changed the world.

The plans are anonymous, open, and impossible to contain. From her dispatch desk in Osasco, Bia watches the routes empty while São Paulo learns what abundance costs: livelihoods collapse, governments and companies try to regain control, and finding what you need becomes easy. Knowing whom to trust does not.

  1. 01Abundance arrivesFood, medicine, tools and shelter, made from dirt and waste.
  2. 02The old routes emptyA material revolution travels faster than the law.
  3. 03Trust becomes scarceWhen anyone can make anything, who vouches for it?

From the manifesto

An excerpt from Bread from Dirt

“No one should have to ask permission to eat, shelter themselves, or make what they need.”

The Atlas Dieter manifesto

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Portrait of Leonel Togniolli

About the author

Leonel Togniolli

Leonel Togniolli is a technology executive with more than 26 years of experience who once spent far too long wondering how to explain the arrival of post-scarcity without talking about AI. The result is Bread from Dirt.

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