information revolution

The networks that we built up, the way of dealing with the world, the institutionalized relations with Europe and so on, those are all burning or crumbling.

But the United States as a power, it seems to me, as if anything, thanks to the information revolution and sort of this extraordinary raises in productivity that I believe we have experienced and are about to experience, I think we're still charging ahead.

It's this odd picture of a dynamic country and a collapsing world system.

The Trump presidency has kind of exaggerated a lot of the disruption.

Understanding how it's changing, how the culture in the Gulf states and Turkey is changing and developing.

I think the Industrial Revolution forced societies to become similar to each other because if you're gonna have big manufacturing plants, big infrastructure, trains, highways, airports, all of this, there's certain things you just have to do institutionally and organizationally that tend to kind of force you toward what we would think of as a European Western way of life and politics.

The information revolution enables countries to use their own cultures, languages, and so on as platforms, and Turkey is more Turkish.

It's less like Europe now than it was twenty-five years ago.

Then it's solidified by Descartes, "I think therefore I am." And now we, it's because of these movements.

If you, if you stay on that rupture train that, that Luther jumped on, stay on the rupture train for 500 years, add a couple revolutions in there, industrial, um, the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and now the Information Revolution, we have the danger we are in now, which is an entire elitist movement.

Some are calling them the tech radicals-

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I mean, my God, it's, you know, they've had a rough time of it for virtually for their entire history.

Many countries really miss the Industrial Revolution, and many are missing now the Information Revolution.

And, you know, I've asked myself after reading this fantastic book many, many years ago by Alvin Toffler, who I would love to get on the show.

You know, I am a big fan of futurist and I love to try and figure out where we are going.

For a while, the wind was taken out of the sails of European resistance.

Yet the fall of the Soviet Union, coinciding with the 1989 invention of the World Wide Web and the unfolding of the Information Revolution, again reorganised the structures that conceptualised the role of technology and automation.

In the US, heightened defence spending for the purpose of communist containment was no longer necessary and tolerance for government intervention had shrunk.

Instead, the economic emphasis was reasserted on markets and private initiative, and resources were directed towards technological development for commercial gain.