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the future of our biosphere and our civilization is at risk and!
depends in fundamental ways upon the types of discoveries I discuss on
the book.
Why are generalists useful to the world? Because we predict the future
for the whole of civilization, not simply a single branch of study. As
within any field of specialists, many generalistsiare frequently wrong'
and many generalists are frequently right. I've chosen to put forth a
testable hypothesis which is concisely stated in 17 phrases. The
details underneath these phrases are each important, but more
important is the coherence of the overall pattern. It is certain that
several of the details in a work of this scale ar~ incorrect. But the
plausibility of the overall hypothesis requires ohly that there is
good evidence for each primary logical step.
Naturally, there ,should be a lot of evidence supporting each logical
step in order to make the assertions I am making.; I believe such
evidence is now in print, across my book and in those books referenced
by me.
You might think that I am distraught over wild exaggerations in the
press and the resulting possibility of damage to my credibility and
career, given my choice to communicate this infor~ation so publicly.
Indeed, though I am no longer with the firm, I ha~e helped to create a
$2+ billion dollar enterprise at the pinnacle of !the Internet
communications revolution just before the dawn of! the new millennium.
It's a great place and time to build a career: But, actually, I am
more excited than ever before in my life, despite the frightening
challenges we all face that I describe below. Wha't I have put together
is quality information, I have studied it f~r ove:r a decade, and its
implications are an order of magnitude more fundamental than you have
imagined. The implications fire the imagination. ;
This book simply does not fit into the class of the fringe or fantasy.
I do not mean to diminish the works of others whq've tackled this
subject matter, for I have built my hypothesis in part upon their
prelimin?ry research into a phenomenqn almost completely foreign to
open science. But whatever the ultimate truth may turn out to be, it
will have to explain all of the subjects address~d in this book, for
everything in this book observes significant phe~omenon that are or
have actually occurred. I am not aware of an alternative theory that
connects each of these large pieces. One thing is certain: there is a
human saga, and we must decipher every major clu~ discussed in this
book to understand it.
Even granting this" you may ask why I should bother doing this. Why
should I not keep this to myself, and pursue whatever passions I have
as a private study?
Why? Because you are my brothers and sisters in a sense more
meaningful than the cultural frameworks we use to separate ourselves
into groups: we are all part of the race of homoisapiens beings, a
fragile yet ancient creation just now waking up to its potential. I
care about you, and I am deeply concerned for our shared long term
future, the legacy we shall leave. We are destroying our children,. our'
culture, even the ancient biosphere that made us; as we encourage a
mindlessly uncontrolled praise of wealth. The Ea*thhas a water cycle
and a carbon cycle. It must have a profit cycle. lAnd it will, even if
it becomes so disfunctional as to fail humanity, :before returning to
health. As the great scientist Carl Sagan long maintained, the
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