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Transition Point
- From Steam to the Singularity
- Narrated by: Sean Culey
- Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Revolution, evolution, or endgame?
The world is an uncertain and unnerving place right now. Technological advancement is creating a perfect storm of disruption, changing the way we shop, eat, work, and communicate. The traditional structures that underpin Western society are all unraveling, identity politics is running rampant, and there is a heightened sense of victimhood with demands for the state to intervene.
These seem like unparalleled times - or are they?
Sean Culey's new book, Transition Point, begins with an examination into why human progress suddenly exploded in 18th century Britain, rather than in larger, better placed, or more culturally advanced civilizations. Culey explains why the societal structures and individual freedoms that developed in Britain allowed the population's innovative capabilities to flourish while the political structures that existed elsewhere held them back, and explains why our technologically driven progress is cyclical, not linear.
Culey then explains why we are now in the transition point between the fifth and sixth technological waves, in a time the old and new co-exist, creating a society with one foot in the past and one in the future. This is a time of winners and losers, of people with capital and those with just labor. People with desired new wave skills and mindsets, and those with redundant old-wave ones.
In part two of the book, Culey details the technological advancements contained in this new wave. Innovations capable of not just replacing jobs, but also capabilities such as vision, hearing, and speech, creating a future where humans are no longer the cheapest or smartest workers around.
The third and most substantial part of Transition Point examines the impact this new wave is going to have on the nature of business practices, on our scientific and technological advancement, on the economy and, most controversially, on society. It explains what actions are needed to prevent the economy from transforming into a nightmare of uncaring corporatism; a world where the wealth flows into the technocrats, establishment, and capital owners, and the modern-day John Henry's are left behind, outperformed by AI systems, robots, and algorithms that work for electricity and never take a break.
Transition Point also explains why, during this disruptive period, control is likely to be retained via the rolling back of the freedoms and liberties that made this period of progress possible in the first place. As China increasingly utilizes technology to gamify life, creating a surveillance society designed to ensure its citizens comply with the rules passed down by their omnipresent government, the West will do likewise, only without the same level of openness and honesty.
As Western society continues to self-implode through a lack of belief in itself, its heritage, or its traditions, these new wave technologies will become instruments of control and much as convenience. Once the citizens realize that their hard-fought freedoms no longer exist, there will be resistance, but it will be too late. New generations will be born into a world of basic income bread and virtual circuses; a life of entertainment, enhancements an,d limited responsibilities. And knowing no different, they will just accept it, mourning not for that which they never experienced.
Finally, the book explains why the collapse of the sixth wave may tear away the last threads holding together society, creating social disruption on a global scale.
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- ronnie
- 20-01-21
The most complete book EVER!! 6 STARS
It's probably the most complete book ever.
Historical, insightful, eye opening, mind bending, thought provoking and prophetic.
Even the dodgy accents are great 😊
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
It's not an IT book, its not a Supply Chain, book.
If it was made into a documentary, it would surpass Sir David Attenborough for content.
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- J. Golubcov
- 12-03-21
Almanach of gloom for the Anglo-Saxon
I think by now I've heared this narrative from a dozen of sources back and forth so many times that it is almost grotesque. Always makes me think of the many types of people in early 1900's talking this exact same way when cars were entering their reality. The fact is that technology changes human behaviours/habits/societies and impacts everything on this planet as we are a planetary species..and so it is expected that the incoming new era tech/sciences will have similiar effect. The best you can do is try to surf the waves by the means of education and self-improvement. Once the disruption hits a critical mass of people-of course there will be conflict. How bad the conflict is highly dependent on the ability of each society to adapt/flex/bend and absorb the shock. I was offended each time the author (who of course also narrated the book) insinuated that without religion people have a lack of meaning and direction in life. On one hand talking about how the loss of religion is the end of us and on the other hand talking about the dangers of other religions "taking over". Also talking about his "modern freedoms" and modern way of life needing protecting from these religious fanatics whilst at the same time fear mongering about the impeding technological feudalistic slavery ahead of us. He wouldn't enjoy most of his freedoms and ways if we would have stopped developing technology in 1970's. It's the same now. The impending scientific and technological revolution ahead of us will, over the course of next 30 years, create a society unrecognisable for humans from 2020's..same as 2020's would be unrecognisable to anyone from 1980's. However, it is crutial that we all do our best to do what's best, same as the generations before us. I guess that is what it means to be a responsible adult and a contributing member of the society serving the best interests of human kind. The more people act in that way the better the outcome will be. The more people act in a unethical, uneducated and selfish way- the worst the outcome will be. Ying Yang kind of a thing = It's a balancing act.
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- G. J. Curzon
- 18-03-23
A must read!
You could be fooled into thinking this book is for the Supply Chain tech practitioners and enthusiasts or for those who seek to understand the use of Artificial Intelligence.
It is those things but also so much more!
Whilst exploring the not only the change through history but also the pace of change, this book marries the advancement of technology and aligns that with the societal impact caused by the never ending march towards a fully digitalised world.
The book leaves you at a point that would appear pivotal in terms of which way the world will go, using tech for the greater good or lead us into a world of surveillance and control….you decide!
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