The Future of Human Evolution

Humanity's Final Chance.

This book is an attempt to understand the pattern of human progress—not to celebrate it uncritically or to condemn it wholesale, but to see it clearly.

By examining how previous transformations unfolded, what distinctions made them possible, and what consequences they carried, we can better prepare for the transformation we now inhabit – and for our future.

The power of distinctions that made us human will determine whether we have a future worthy of our past. The lines we draw now—between human and machines, between growth and sustainability, between individual freedom and collective survival, between the power we possess and the wisdom we need—will shape not just our children's world but whether they will have a world at all.

We now stand at the threshold of a seventh transformation, one that may be more consequential than all that came before. This transformation is not a single technology or idea but rather a confluence of multiple developments, all demanding that we make new distinctions with unprecedented speed and wisdom.

We are still the species that draw lines. The question is whether we can learn to draw them wisely enough, quickly enough, and with sufficient humility to navigate what may be our final test. The pattern of our past suggests we have the capacity.

Whether we have the will remains to be seen.