Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom

I workin technology and see first hand many of the transformations the authors mention on the horizon. I have blogged about many of them over the years raising the same concerns. So, to see those issues and others I was not as aware of so eloquently brought to light does my heart good. I currently work for a municipality so I plan to get a copy of this book in as many city managers hands as I can. You can read this book in day, but you’ll spends weeks thinking about it. A huge thank you to the authors. Time is short, so please read this today!

A disruptive book to disrupt your mind. It takes you to a inimaginable future. It worthwhile. Once you start you can not stop reading.

This is a great overview of some important trends facing humanity at this time. Tony Saber and the other authors do a great job of giving us insights into past technologies that disrupted industries and Then a glimpse into the disruptive industries of the future that will affect all of humanity.

A really good summary and certainly maintains your interest.

This is a book I will be re-reading often - there's just too much to absorb in one read. Other reviewers have covered its content very well so I will just pass on a way to obtain a more readable digital version of the book that is also less expensive. I hope this will allow more people to read this very important work.Visit the RethinkX website main page and follow the instructions. For best readability, use continuous scroll.

The authors provide a very interesting analysis of history and the rise and fall of civilizations through the lens of technological change. The view to the future based on this framework is both hopeful and daunting, with incredible possibilities but also deeply concerning risks. This is not the usual rose-tinted-glasses view of future from techno-optimists, but instead a more balanced view that takes disruptive technologies seriously both for the opportunities they can offer and also the problems they could create. Highly recommended.

I find Tony Seba’s videos on the current and coming disruptive technologies which will impact our lives most compelling. Thus I purchased his book Rethinking Humanity. I have two issues with the book:My first issue is a very practical one; the book was printed in gray color type on white paper. Black type would have been far easier to read. The second matter is a bit more of a concern.While the first part of the work discussed such disruptions and was most interesting Tony and his co-author go on about how “we” ought to deal with these upcoming disruptions, lest we fall into a “dark age.” Now, the authors may well be correct, that without a unified preparation for the coming future events our civilization will, as every civilization which preceded us, fall into a period of discord, conflict and loss of knowledge (thus a “dark age”). My quarrel is with the recommendations made by the authors, and just how unrealistic they are.A few examples:The future will be led by “upstart” (my word) more adapt5able communities, in which the authors include cities, naming California and Seattle. I’m not sure how one or more of our states will take some sort of control over our nation.Our foodstuffs (including meat) will be generated by sophisticated chemical concoctions. Thus world hunger will be a thing of the past. Perhaps, but that’s really stretching it a bit.Governments ought to do such things as cancel high-speed rail link programs and create two lane highways which use autonomous electric road trains (which do not exist at this time). Really?They offer up numerous (highly speculative) suggestions of this nature, which I suggest detract from the normally fact-driven observations I’ve heretofore seen from Tony.

I have started reading this a number of times and given up. The font in which it is printed is unreadable; small gray letters. How does a publisher not assess the readabilty of the font? I would have returned it if i had tried reading it before the return deadline.

The book is a well researched and clearly written report on how the decade of the 2020s will see the start of a shift in the way human beings live on the planet--moving from an extractive centralized system of production to a creative, distributed system, where human creativity will be required to overcome the destructive tendencies of present production and consumption.The approach is heavy on technology and could have been more balanced with commentary on the nature and origin of human consciousness.

Mandatory reading about big technological disruptions in the 2020 decade.Missing an Audible version.

Ipotizzare la fine dell'era dell'auto, degli idrocarburi, dell'agricoltura intensiva e dell'industria estrattiva, il tutto nel corso di questo decennio può sembrare più una provocazione di una previsione.Il lettore, dopo questo libro, può essere tentato di liquidare Tony Seba come  un visionario o come un futurista troppo anticipatore.Da parte mia, avendo letto a inizio 2019 il suo libro 'Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation', scritto nel 2014, e assistendo in questi mesi alla tardiva e goffa riconversione elettrica dell'industria automobilistica, faccio fatica a banalizzare le sue tesi e inizio a preoccuparmi!Lo scenario è apocalittico, considerata la situazione geopolitica in cui ci troviamo in questo momento: crescenti tensioni internazionali, spesa record per gli armamenti, e soprattutto una Pandemia mondiale dove non vedo nessuna forma di democratizzazione nel settore Farmaceutico per i vaccini, e nessuna forma di alleggerimento dell'antagonismo internazionale.Lettura indispensabile!!!

Thoroughly thought-provoking report, an essential read for anyone to understand the patterns that drove complexity, disruption and change in our history. The thinking process is clear and ultimately mind blowing, the diagrams give you a great visual foundation on how it all works."The Path to Freedom" - "...Which road we take depends on our choices. We have an incredible opportunity to embrace technological progress...to help build a healthier, fairer, more prosperous, and resilient world for every one of us. We must take it." I agree!

I’ve read this book over the last week and a lot of things we are experiencing and viewing from afar begin to make sense. We are seeing the book’s predictions come true day by day. Amazing read.