Part III — A Real New Age - From Linear Collapse to Integrated Maturity "People do not appreciate that the rate of progress is accelerating." — Ray Kurzweil, MIT lecture, October 2025 "Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Having traced in Part II how we arrived at this threshold through the Industrial Revolution, the rise of inner technologies, and the cultural shifts that

Part II — Crossing the Knee How Technology, Culture, and Consciousness Began to Accelerate Together "What human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and technological evolution, and it's the nature of evolution that it accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially." — Ray Kurzweil "After eons of slow expansion, the human species has entered a phase of compression. Every part of the globe is now inhabited, and we are confronted by a new reality: limited

Part I — Two Ways of Seeing the Horizon "It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace." — Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near "The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I had a spontaneous awakening 20 years ago, at a time when the wor

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