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Wild Ecology
From fire, ice, and glaciations to Yellowstone's looming eruption, civilization's 10,000-year history has run during a rare climate optimum.
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Wild Globalization
A pan-historical exploration of the five wild forces - Ecology, Culture, Technology, Economy, and Governance - that drive and produce our hyper-globalizing civilization. It's wild.
The Book
Inside the Black Box
Wild Globalization explores five primal forces-energies that drive and produce civilization. We may observe what comes out, but what happens inside that spontaneously evolving entanglement surpasses complete understanding. It's wild.
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Wild Culture & Demographics
Over one million souls per week flood into cities. Demographic and cultural expressions emerge as spontaneous, uncontrollable wild orders.
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Wild Force III
Wild Technology
From bipedalism and big brains to the Internet of Things and the Cloud, technology's gifts now threaten to overwhelm the grids that sustain us.
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Wild Economy
Markets, resources, debt, and supply chains arrange themselves with a logic that surpasses any single government or ideology.
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Wild Governance
From tribal bands to billion-person states, humanity's attempts to form social contracts struggle against the tide of complexity.
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The Big Question
Can We Re-Emerge from the Wilderness?
Can we turn our creative-destructive hyper-tech nature back on itself to gain new comparative advantages for our own survival?
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About the Work
More Provocateur than Scholar
Wild Globalization doesn't offer easy ideology. It's a siren for critical thinking, dwelling in questions and wonderment rather than formal account, building its perspective from both the miracles and horrors of humankind.
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Pan-Historical Lens
Wild Globalization traces the full 250,000-year footprint of homo sapiens, from primal ecological survival to hyper-connected megacities.
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Pan-Cultural Perspective
Every ideological response is leveraged by the same five wild forces. The book invites a heuristic that refuses lazy simplification.
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Finite Time Singularities
Civilization grows exponentially, reaches crisis, and undergoes paradigm shifts that reset the next growth cycle.
"Can we turn our incessantly creative-destructive and emerging hyper-tech nature back on itself to gain new comparative advantages? How can we, in the 21st century, regain practical advantage for our own - and the Earth's - precarious endurance?"
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The Wild Globalization ProjectPan-historical analysis