Harnessing Disruption: Building the Tech Future Without Breaking Society

In Harnessing Disruption, Sarah E. Kreps-a national security expert and military veteran-offers a fresh, clear-eyed framework for understanding the social and political dynamics that shape technological change. From nuclear weapons to AI, cryptocurrency, and social media, breakthrough innovations rarely arrive without backlash. Disruption is not collapse. History shows it is part of a recurring pattern.

With unmatched insight and authority, Kreps traces a five-stage cycle that technologies f...