Authors Note
We use “we” throughout this book because the book is a creation of the One World team. Its principal author is Joe Carvin, the founder and Executive Director of the One World education programs. We also want to make clear that we are not industry specialists. Our goal is to provide the perspective of the […]
Letters from the Year 2050
Letter from a Citizen in the Year 2050 Greetings from the year 2050, a time that feels like a miracle when I look back at the world you inhabited in 2025. I am an ordinary citizen of this vibrant, thriving planet, and it is with profound gratitude that I wrote this letter of thanks to […]
#6: Technological Convergence: A Glimpse of Super Abundance and our Post-Human Future
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C Clarke As trillions of dollars are invested in the Technology Tsunami, one fundamentally important concept to understand is technological convergence, in which previously separate technologies combine to create capabilities far more powerful than any individual technology could achieve alone. We are going to look […]
#14: Project 2050: A Story of Hope and Global Unity
In 2025, humanity stands at a crossroads—the hinge of history—where our choices today will echo for generations. Across continents and time zones, 1.3–1.4 billion children pass the night like a torch of dreams, as Yukiko Yamaguchi’s poem, Night Passing, reminds us. These dreams traverse oceans, whispering of a future where superabundance is not a distant […]
Epilogue 1-A Different Kind of Book
A Different Kind of Book As we briefly explained in our Author’s Note, we expect that this book will be a bit different from the traditional books of the past. First, as you will have seen, borrowing a bit from Mo Gawdat’s lead, we have introduced our AI as a co-author where our AI penned […]
Epilogue 2 – Finding Purpose
We stand at the precipice of a new era, a moment so profound that it may well define the fate of humanity for millennia to come. As the authors of The Hinge of History: Humanity’s Cosmic Choice Between Abundance and Extinction argue, there has never been a more excit- ing—or more critical—time to be alive. […]
Publisher Info
One World Press New York Project 2050 Copyright 2025, Joseph Carvin All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Devon Square Press, a division of Hays Media. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the authors. Contact: publisher@devonsquarepress.net ISBN: 979-8-89814-817-1 […]