As posted to the RethinkX YouTube Channel on 11/04/2021

(Run Time 32 min, 32 sec)

We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest and most consequential transformation of civilization in history.  Yet while humanity is on the brink of this existential transformation, we’re blind to the deeper processes of change.

“Rethinking Humanity” takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of the rise and fall of civilizations through a powerful lens that makes sense of the past, so that we can step into the present and create our future.

Throughout history, the inability to see what is going on left society looking inward and backwards.  Desperate for stability and certainty.  Incapable of making a different choice.  The unavoidable result each time were efforts to patch up an order already in decline. Demanding more of whatever might have worked before. Yet, doubling down on the old, only accelerated collapse.

During the 2020s, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors that underpin civilization (information, energy, transportation, food, and materials), and with them every major industry in the world today. In these five foundational sectors, costs will fall by 10x or more, while production processes an order of magnitude more efficient will use 90% fewer natural resources with 10x-100x less waste.  We are leaving the Age of Extraction which epitomized the past 100 years, and entering the Age of Creation.

The knock-on effects for society will be as profound as the extraordinary possibilities that emerge. For the first time in history, we could overcome poverty easily. Access to all our basic needs could become a fundamental human right. But this is just one future outcome. The alternative could see our civilization collapse into a new dark age. Which path we take depends on the choices we make, starting today. The stakes could not be higher.

(This is Blog Post #1163)

Rethinking Humanity is based on the book authored by James Arbib and Tony Seba (co-founders of RethinkX), available for free download from www.rethinkx.com

Tony Seba is the author of “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation – How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030” and “Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030”. He is the creator of the “Seba Technology Disruption Framework”. His work focuses on technology disruption – the convergence of technologies, business model and product innovations leading to the disruption of the world’s major industries. His previous books include “Solar Trillions” and “Winners Take All”.