Living on the Cliff Face
We are living in exponential times This is a post with three (and a bit) book reviews. It started in 2021 during lockdowns, when I re-read the first book on the list, written over 50 years ago. I put off writing about it and then 2023 hit, and two more books helped bring the same message to the modern day. But really, this is just a data point in time: Easter weekend, March 2024 (remember back then?). It's already disappearing in the rear view mirror. Okay, mountain goats, here we go... Book 0: Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970) Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore . -- Orson Wells in a documentary of the same name. Toffler had a knack for publishing books that captured and defined the megatrends of the day: The Third Wave (1980) correctly saw the end of the Industrial Revolution and the start of an information society. Powershift (1990) can be summed up as "knowledge is po...