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  Benni Chisholm

  5.0 out of 5 stars The Sovereign Individual by William Rees-Mogg and James Davidson

  Reviewed in Canada on April 22, 2022

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  The authors explain that the first stage of society, Hunting and Gathering, worked for eons. The second stage, Agriculture, spread over millennia, and the third stage, Industrial, took centuries. The fourth stage, Information, will happen during a lifetime. The authors foresaw that individuals will be liberated to educate and motivate themselves, allowing genius to flourish. Cyberspace will render race, gender, age, sexual proclivity, and appearance to be unimportant. Cryptocurrency will prompt power-hungry politicians to lie, tax excessively, and print money that causes inflation. The authors foresee an eventual breakdown of nation states. Their final analyses ends with a hope of optimism. This book was written in 1997 and follows their book, The Great Reckoning. I wish they could write a sequel today.

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