One of the readings of this summer has been a book that I highly recommend to everyone. It is about the Sovereign Individual.
It was a book whose first version was written in 1997, and it already predicted what was to come. So far, he has been getting it right in many aspects of how society was going to behave, and he gives us a recipe to face a world full of intangibles.
Fourth Phase of the story
But let's start at the beginning. According to the authors, we are entering the fourth phase of society, the information society. The first three phases were agrarian, farming, and modern culture. But there is a big difference between this fourth phase and the previous ones. This phase will not take hundreds of years but a few years. In these few years, individuals will see an enormous amount of change take place. These changes will totally change our civilization and our understanding of the world.
This fourth phase will take place entirely on the web, where the vast majority of people are alre…