No less an authority than Isaac Newton speculated that the world would end with the year 2000. Ever since the world failed to end at the turn of the first millennium after Christ, theologians, evangelists, poets, seers, and now, even computer programmers have looked to the end of this decade with an expectation that it would bring something momentous. The coming of the year 2000 has haunted the Western imagination for the past thousand years. The beginning of something we may never understand."
They all soar up to an asymptote just beyond the turn of the century: The Singularity. "It feels like something big is about to happen: graphs show us the yearly growth of populations, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, Net addresses, and Mbytes per dollar. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values.
This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries - the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.įew observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century.
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