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2100: How Civilization Avoids Collapse: A Framework for Survival in an Age of Complexity
Paperback
General ComputersGeneral Political ScienceHistory & Philosophy of Science
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Civilization has never had a blueprint.
It survives by constantly modifying itself at the edge of failure.
2100: Civilization's Self-Rescue in Complexity is not a conventional futurist book. It does not try to predict which technologies will dominate the year 2100. Instead, it asks a more fundamental question:
How can civilization remain operational as complexity continues to rise?
This book traces a new chain of civilizational risk:
interruption → access → qualification → cost → legitimacy distortion → UBAC → meaning → emergence
In the age of AI and automation, the deepest transformation may not be technological. It may be structural.
- Defense is no longer only about borders, but about nodes.
- AI is no longer merely a tool, but an access layer.
- Labor no longer automatically grants qualification for distribution.
- Rules may continue to operate while losing their legitimacy.
- People may still exist inside the system while no longer truly participating in civilization.
The book introduces UBAC - a basic access protocol for civilization - as a way to ask:
When work no longer reliably proves that a person should be included, how does civilization confirm that a person still counts?
Ultimately, this is not only a book about the future.
It is a book about whether civilization can remain operational without defaulting to the deletion of human beings.
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