The Evolutionary Lens

How should humanity navigate accelerating change in the 21st century?

Surprisingly, all change is governed by one process—evolution. To navigate accelerating change, we should apply evolution to culture and technology, and embrace the intentional evolution of our planet.

The Evolutionary Lens is broken into five parts. In the first four parts, we'll travel in time through four metaphorical libraries that were built by evolution:

  • Part I: Cosmic Evolution in the Library of Atoms
    14 billion – 4 billion years ago
  • Part II: Biological Evolution in the Library of Genes
    4 billion – 200,000 years ago
  • Part III: Cultural Evolution in the Library of Ideas
    200,000 years ago – 1945
  • Part IV: Digital Evolution in the Library of Code
    1945 – present

Finally in Part V, we'll use our new evolutionary lens to diagnose the problems of the present, then show how intentional evolution can create a positive future.


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