The Monadic Age: Notes on the Coming Social Order

How a new paradigm of self-sufficiency is about to force a reinvention of all social parameters.

The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In The Monadic Age, Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—mon...