What if the information economy was over?
Since medieval times, the West has been defined by agricultural, industrial, and information economies. Each new economy has forced the West to redefine things as fundamental to its identity as religion, politics, and finance. What if a just emerging fourth economy will force us to redefine business?
The Fourth Economy is a history book that tells your future. Using a pattern of social invention and revolution to tell the story of how the West emerged from the Dark Ages, it then uses this pattern to predict the sweeping changes of the next few decades.
If the information economy is giving way to a new, fourth, entrepreneurial economy, it suggests something sobering and something exciting. What is sobering is that our old policies are no longer enough. What is exciting is that if we can reinvent ourselves as past generations did in the transition from agricultural to industrial, or industrial to information economies, we can experience prosperity and quality of life better than we could have hoped.
The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization is a wildly optimistic book that will change how you think about the past and your future.