Everything worth knowing — as prompts you paste to learn.
The Enlightenment's great encyclopedia gave its readers the answers. This one gives learners the questions — because now everyone arrives with a tutor already in their pocket. Pick a subject, set your level, and copy a ready-made prompt into any AI to study it properly.
Free education, all the way to degree level — no fees, no entry requirements. You bring only the AI. This is what democratising learning can look like.
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“My questions are the most valuable IP to me. The answers are a commodity.”
That is the whole idea here. Answers are cheap now — any AI will hand you one. The scarce, valuable thing is knowing what to ask, and knowing enough to ask well. Curious, knowledgeable people use AI like a lever: the more you understand, the more it multiplies what you can do. ModernEncy exists to hand everyone that lever — free forever — and turn learners into genuine AI power-users.
The Library
54 subjects · six faculties · open any oneEach node is a complete little school for one subject, and opens to its own page with the full twelve-prompt treatment. Filter by faculty, then open a node — or jump straight to the quick generator below.
Logic, ethics, mind, and the great debates — how to think, not just what to think.
Open full page →The languages, literature, history and afterlife of Greece and Rome.
Open full page →Every period and region, plus the historian's craft of weighing evidence.
Open full page →Beowulf to the digital novel, plus how the language itself works.
Open full page →Physical systems, human geography and the geographer's toolkit.
Open full page →How modern AI works — taught, fittingly, by an instance of the subject.
Open full page →Critical thinking, AI literacy and learning how to learn — the base for everything else.
Open full page →Scarcity, markets, money and the great arguments about all three.
Open full page →Ideologies, the British constitution, and how nations deal with nations.
Open full page →Memory, the brain, the classic studies and their modern reassessment.
Open full page →Jurisprudence, the core subjects, and reasoning like a lawyer.
Open full page →Theory, method, class, and the sociological imagination.
Open full page →From what a proof is to the frontiers — every result derived, not just stated.
Open full page →Classical and modern physics, with the interpretations kept honestly open.
Open full page →Physical, organic and inorganic chemistry, taught for understanding.
Open full page →From DNA to evolution to the whole living world.
Open full page →Neurons to consciousness — the most disciplined bridge to AI.
Open full page →Algorithms, theory and systems — with code that actually runs.
Open full page →Reading data honestly — every number with its caveat.
Open full page →Stars, galaxies, cosmology and the search for life.
Open full page →Geology, oceans, atmosphere and the settled science of climate.
Open full page →The science and reasoning of medicine — never a substitute for a clinician.
Open full page →The disciplines and the trade-off thinking that defines the field.
Open full page →How firms create value, and how to decide when there's no clean answer.
Open full page →What actually works in teaching — and the myths that don't.
Open full page →Design thinking and craft across the disciplines, taught studio-style.
Open full page →Design, history, structures and the shaping of cities.
Open full page →The science of growing, food systems and the future of farming.
Open full page →Any major language, with the AI as a tireless conversation partner.
Open full page →How language itself works — sound, structure and meaning — the science beneath every language model.
Open full page →World religions and the philosophy of religion, told fairly.
Open full page →Eras, movements and visual culture — the prompt sends you to the real thing.
Open full page →How music works, the actor's craft, and the practice loop.
Open full page →Media theory, journalism, and the platforms shaping what you see.
Open full page →Scaling, agents, AGI debates and safety — searched fresh each time.
Open full page →CRISPR, mRNA and synthetic biology — the science, ethics and governance.
Open full page →Renewables, storage, nuclear and fusion — the century's defining project.
Open full page →Brain–computer interfaces, neural implants and the fight for mental privacy.
Open full page →Reusable launch, constellations, the Moon and Mars, and space law.
Open full page →Scenario planning, forecasting and long-term risk — the capstone node.
Open full page →How we reconstruct the human past and make sense of human cultures — from potsherds to kinship.
Open full page →Why crime happens, how societies respond, and whether justice systems actually work.
Open full page →How systems are attacked and defended — cryptography, threats and the human factor, taught defensively.
Open full page →Nursing, pharmacy, the therapies and the professions that keep healthcare running — as subjects, never a substitute for a clinician.
Open full page →Quantum computing, communication and sensing — the strange physics moving from lab to industry.
Open full page →The science of ageing, regenerative medicine, and the ethics of enhancing the human body and mind.
Open full page →Adaptation, carbon removal, the circular economy and the fierce debates around geoengineering.
Open full page →Graphene, metamaterials, 3D printing and self-assembling systems — engineering at the smallest scales.
Open full page →Humanoids, drones, autonomous vehicles and the messy business of robots sharing our spaces.
Open full page →VR, AR and mixed reality, digital twins, and the open question of what the metaverse is really for.
Open full page →Blockchains, tokens, smart contracts and CBDCs — with the critiques and risks given equal weight.
Open full page →Chip design and fabrication geopolitics, plus neuromorphic, photonic and edge computing beyond the transistor.
Open full page →Deepfakes, information warfare and digital sovereignty — defending a shared reality, taught defensively.
Open full page →The deep sea, the poles and the blue economy — the science, the resources and the debates over exploiting them.
Open full page →Quick generator
Defaults are sensible — change only what you likeGenerate a ready-to-paste prompt for any subject without leaving this page.
From the Journal
Dispatches, essays & field notesNotes from a living library — on learning with AI, and a curriculum that keeps growing. All entries →
For 250 years the scarce, precious thing was the answer. AI changed that overnight — which is exactly why ModernEncyclopedia hands you the questions.
Read →Most people use AI as a vending machine for answers and learn nothing. Six shifts turn the same model into a patient, Socratic tutor.
Read →The 54th subject is live: Linguistics, the science of language itself — and the field underneath every large language model.
Read →Free forever
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