The System of the World is Changing (Again)
The System of the World Is Changing Again From Human Constrained to Post-Constraint Economies Like most science ficiton geeks I've attempted to read Neal Stephensons's Baroque Cycle. The attempt was not entirely unsuccessful though I will admit I did not make it all the way through those three massive volumes. I did make it far enough to get the basic gist of the central idea. To summarize; the three books are adventure story set in the late 16th and early 16th century. But they ate more than an adventure story they are an attempt to chronicle the emergency of our modern "system of the world". They assert that the world is governed by a set of integrated socioeconomic and geopolitical systems, by common global structures and interactions , not just individual intent. And that around the time the book covers (late 17th and early 18th centuries) that system fundamentally and materially changed, relatively quickly, to give birth to a new set of rules and constraints t...