Introduction

What is the purpose of these writings?

• To detail the coming risks to humanity brought about by rapidly advancing technologies.
• To show the growing effects and risks already occurring today on society, as well as project these risks into the future.
• To search for possible solutions
• To give you greater knowledge to choose your path in the future.

Many books, articles, and voices continue to debate the merits of advanced technologies such as AI (or AGI), robotics, nanotech, biotech, and other civilization-altering technologies. Most such discussions center on technological risks, whereas this book is written primarily to discuss the growing real risks to a slowly collapsing society; that is it does not directly wipe us out through some extinction event, but rather, it does so indirectly through the subtle weaknesses in each one of us on a grand scale we call society. Like 9 of the 11 largest civilizations that have ever existed, we are more likely to destroy ourselves from within than from without (the barbarians)[will durant]. If civilization is failing, then it is likely that either few are noticing it, or if they are, they are doing nothing about it.

There are probably a few initial responses to these claims, and using a metaphor:

Me: Humanity is about to be destroyed, and is actually slowly underway.

• Person 1: There is no risk now, and there may never be a risk (denial)
• Person 2: There is risk, but someone else will figure it out (laissez-faire)
• Person 3: The risk is there, but we cannot do anything about it (apathetic/fatalist)
• Person 4: The risk is there, but not that bad (imprudent).

Personally, I hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

To avoid discussing the mounting risks issues at hand is to be indifferent to the exponentially growing risks already well underway. this book will demonstrate such trends and predict future outcomes.

As technological changes and risks accelerate exponentially, so do changes and risks in society.

This was challenging to write as I am a parent who is self-employed and who homeschools his children. I read on topics of economics, social science, politics, and civilization. I also like to work to discover innovative methods to grow food without the use of machines. Other interests include attempting to solve any unanswered problem or question like, why do most cultures have similar mythological roots?

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Partners in Ecocide: Australia’s Complicity in the Uranium Cartel, by Venturino Giorgio Venturini in 1982 “In 1972 uranium producers from France, South Africa, Australia, Great Britain and Canada organized an international cartel to control the production and sale of uranium.”