#10: The Urgent Need to Generate a Global Conversation on the Future of Humanity
One of the ways humanity will need to build wisdom worthy of the name of our species will be to build a global wisdom and sense of connectedness that has not been with us in the past. In the opening of his 2008 book Common Wealth, Jeffrey Sachs made clear how important the development of […]
#11: The Urgent Need to Get Serious about AI Regulation
As we saw very clearly in Chapters Three and Four, the intelligence explosion is here. The future is here. The ChatGPT moment accelerated the arrival of AGI and ASI by two to three decades along with the risks and opportunities associated with them. The fundamental question for humanity is, how are we going to prepare […]
#12 Expanding Situational Awareness
Expanding Situational Awareness to Address the Urgent Need for a Global Conversation on the Future of Humanity Our goal in writing this book is to provide the average citizen with a book, a primer, that helps sort through the artificial intelligence noise— and to understand just how profoundly transformative AI technology is, so that we […]
#13: Finding Purpose
Alice to the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865): “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you […]
#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 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. […]
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