| Political scientists Ayesha and Parag Khanna (whom Esquire magazine calls one of the 75 people who will influence the 21st century) declare that we are rapidly moving from a point of co-existence with technology to a point of co-evolution with it. Their new book, Hybrid Reality explores our unfolding future. |
.In the book, the authors declare that we are rapidly moving from a point of co-existence with technology to a point of co-evolution with it.
According to the authors, The Hybrid Age is a new sociotechnical era that is unfolding as technologies merge with each other and humans merge with technology -- both at the same time.
In the Hybrid Age, technology is ubiquitous (with trillions of sensors coating our environment), intelligent (devices communicating with each other as well as with us), and social (encouraging us to develop emotional relationships with it).
In the Hybrid Age, technology no longer just processes our instruction; it has its own agency, and we respond to it as much as it responds to us. What is means for societies and individuals, as well as communities and nations, is truly world changing.
Peter Diamandis says of the book,
“Hybrid Reality is an enormously important contribution our thinking about how to create a better tomorrow. It studiously ties technology to our deepest political and economic patterns and gives a lucid portrayal of the technologies re-shaping our lives today. The Khanna’s case for a Pax Technologica is a mission we should all share.”
The Khannas' Hybrid Reality Institute is a research group that explores human-technology co-evolution and geotechnology, and their implications for society, business and politics.
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