Product Description
This economic model applies the laws of biology to explain the organic nature of the Industrial R=evolution, completing the work of Kondratieff, who studied the I wave of the Industrial Revolution of 'metal-bodies', steam machines and printed stocks, lead by England; Schumpeter who studied the 2nd wave of electrochemical engines, cars and ticker money lead by Germany; and Mandelbrot who found the ternary, fractal structure of the crashes of overproduction that ended those waves, as new, more evolved machines substituted them, with an analysis in depth of the 3rd wave of heads of metal, chips, cameras, mobiles and e-money, lead by America; forecasting according to the similarity of those 3 industrial waves, the 2008 crash of overproduction of electronic machines and e-money that would ruin the global economy, as it has been the case. (The reader should notice the cover of this book, first published in Spain (c. 01) pinpoints the exact date).
All what was needed for that dare prediction was to adjust the Kondratieff cycle, since he had divided each centennial cycle of evolution of energy, its machines and informative software in 2 sub-cycles of 54 years – the age of steam, the energy, and the age of trains, the machine; the age of electrochemical energies and the age of cars, the machine. Thus when we put both waves together, a simple pattern of evolution of machines that defines modern history and the power of nations emerges.
- In the 1st wave, England made bodies of machines, fit with simple steam engines.
- In the 2nd wave, Germany invented electro-chemical engines that act as the ‘hearts’ of those machines. And both tried to conquer the world with the ‘twin weapons’ of those machines, armored trains that built the British Empire and armored cars (tanks) that fought II world war.
- The 3rd wave of electronic machines, chip-brains, mobile-ears and camera-eyes completed the creation of ‘heads of metal’. And America has conquered ‘virtually’ the world with them.
- Thus, according to such organic pattern we now enter the 4th robotic wave that puts together, bodies, engines=hearts and heads of metal, in organic, robots.
Further on, each of those waves ends up in a peak of massive reproduction of old machines and their language of valuation, money, precisely when new machines make the old wave obsolete, causing a 4-folded crisis, which is happening again:
- A crisis of overproduction of electronic money that causes a redistribution of rent from the middle classes to a reduced group of financial economists and stock-owners, who manipulate and tax all prices with their speculative software.
- A crisis of unemployment caused by the new wave of blue-collar robots that are automatizing the productive processes of the economy.
- A military age of splendid little wars caused by the overproduction of electronic weapons sold to governments by lobbies and warmonger politicians.
- A cultural and ethical crisis, as electronic media, suffocate humanist voices, delivering fundamentalist messages in favor of the multiplication of those machines that give huge profits to corporations, despite its collateral effects against mankind.
This book compares the 3 waves, anticipating the future of the economic ecosystem, according to the self-similarity of all those waves, focusing in the crash of the electronic economy and the collateral effects it is having on mankind; as the global economy molts from the age of heads of metal in which humans attached to an informative machine that enhanced our eyes and brains, worked in the informative economy, to an age of autonomous robots powered by solar skins that no longer require human masters, making us obsolete in fields of labor and war.
Yet the existential and financial crisis mankind confronts can be cured if politicians regulate the economic system with the laws of organic systems, creating a world made to the image and likeness of mankind. So we end, laying down the human solutions to the crisis.
All what was needed for that dare prediction was to adjust the Kondratieff cycle, since he had divided each centennial cycle of evolution of energy, its machines and informative software in 2 sub-cycles of 54 years – the age of steam, the energy, and the age of trains, the machine; the age of electrochemical energies and the age of cars, the machine. Thus when we put both waves together, a simple pattern of evolution of machines that defines modern history and the power of nations emerges.
- In the 1st wave, England made bodies of machines, fit with simple steam engines.
- In the 2nd wave, Germany invented electro-chemical engines that act as the ‘hearts’ of those machines. And both tried to conquer the world with the ‘twin weapons’ of those machines, armored trains that built the British Empire and armored cars (tanks) that fought II world war.
- The 3rd wave of electronic machines, chip-brains, mobile-ears and camera-eyes completed the creation of ‘heads of metal’. And America has conquered ‘virtually’ the world with them.
- Thus, according to such organic pattern we now enter the 4th robotic wave that puts together, bodies, engines=hearts and heads of metal, in organic, robots.
Further on, each of those waves ends up in a peak of massive reproduction of old machines and their language of valuation, money, precisely when new machines make the old wave obsolete, causing a 4-folded crisis, which is happening again:
- A crisis of overproduction of electronic money that causes a redistribution of rent from the middle classes to a reduced group of financial economists and stock-owners, who manipulate and tax all prices with their speculative software.
- A crisis of unemployment caused by the new wave of blue-collar robots that are automatizing the productive processes of the economy.
- A military age of splendid little wars caused by the overproduction of electronic weapons sold to governments by lobbies and warmonger politicians.
- A cultural and ethical crisis, as electronic media, suffocate humanist voices, delivering fundamentalist messages in favor of the multiplication of those machines that give huge profits to corporations, despite its collateral effects against mankind.
This book compares the 3 waves, anticipating the future of the economic ecosystem, according to the self-similarity of all those waves, focusing in the crash of the electronic economy and the collateral effects it is having on mankind; as the global economy molts from the age of heads of metal in which humans attached to an informative machine that enhanced our eyes and brains, worked in the informative economy, to an age of autonomous robots powered by solar skins that no longer require human masters, making us obsolete in fields of labor and war.
Yet the existential and financial crisis mankind confronts can be cured if politicians regulate the economic system with the laws of organic systems, creating a world made to the image and likeness of mankind. So we end, laying down the human solutions to the crisis.
