Hi TOK List,

  You might be interested to know that there is a book coming out later this year on the Big History Threshold #9, framed at "The Singularity". Here is the link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030337292

  I found the link on TOK Society member Brent Cooper's excellent article, The Meta-Convergence Continuum<https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/the-meta-convergence-continuum-6569e5553371>. It describes an important book, Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence, that he contributed as an editor and researcher to, which he summarized as follows:

I would describe it as semi-planned techno-opportunism, based on an AI convergence methodology with the understanding that a substantive paradigm shift is needed and is happening. The technological singularity is not a paradigm shift in itself, but requires a new social contract and worldview to match. This book takes a mostly positivistic view of technology combined with humanism, not "a social anthropological or political approach nor a technocratic one." In this way, it attempts to outline a neutral methodology that accounts for all variables in the evolving context of smart cities to serve all actors and stakeholders equitably.

It is important to keep in mind that one of the unique features of the ToK System is that it provides a very clear understanding of the Digital Dimension as a new plane of complex adaptive behavior that will emerge in the 21st Century and aligns with the Singularity and BH Threshold #9. I should also mention here that Cory David Barkers work on the Architectonic of Simulation<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2dzPW-QmWM> is also relevant because it provides a novel way to categorize human knowing/knowledge schematics.

I know that these comments may come across as a bit cryptic, but I am basically signaling the need to pay attention to the emergence of the singularity in the decades to come.

Best,
Gregg

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