John Rector is a Charleston-based entrepreneur, author, and AI strategist. He co-founded E2open, the supply-chain software company acquired for $2.1 billion in 2025, and in 2026 opened Charleston AI, a 3,000-square-foot lab that helps people and organizations understand and use artificial intelligence. He is the creator of The Reality Equation — a lecture series, book, and curriculum exploring attention, prediction, and how reality is experienced — and the author of more than two dozen books. He writes and speaks widely on artificial intelligence, attention, and the future of human work.

Author: John Rector

The cover of Of Age by John Rector shows rows of small pale figures on a dark green field, each with an amber lantern held high above it on a thin thread.
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Of Age: Tocqueville, the Gentle Guardian, and the One Question to Ask Your AI

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In 1840 Tocqueville described a power so kind he could not name it: absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing and mild. It could not be built then. This book argues that it can be built now, and that the difference between a delegate and a guardian is the one question to ask of your AI. … readOf Age: Tocqueville, the Gentle Guardian, and the One Question to Ask Your AI