Chapter 8 of The Book: The New Survival - Content Nation Redefines the Future of Humanity

This is a really, really neat chapter to have written. What is the future of civilization in a world in which social media begins to dominate publishing? Well, this brings up the more basic question: what exactly is human civilization? I have come to realize through my research that the adaptation to our natural environment called civilization is a tool for survival as much as the bows and arrows of our early human ancestors were adaptations to their natural surroundings. At the heart of this adaptation was a key tool: publishing. The centralized publishing of early civilizations enabled humans to extend their genes through publishing to create a common code of human conduct that enabled civilizations to grow like enormous organisms.

This is the good news for civilization. Now the bad news: it's an organism that has the potential to be facing extinction-level events. As a result, the tools that define the organism of civilization must adapt in order for it to survive. In Chapter 8 I explore the following fundamental premise:

From the standpoint of ensuring the survival of humankind the development of today's diverse array of social media publishing tools already in wide use is probably the most significant event in human history since the dawn of large-scale human civilizations. Social media publishing is important to this significant degree not just because it is revolutionary in light of our current civilization but because it enables humans to reclaim our ability to survive and to thrive in an overwhelmed global civilization that must adapt to diverse and increasingly unstable conditions in nature and in civilization itself. Other advances in technology have allowed us to survive and thrive in relatively predictable conditions: social media prepares us to evolve survival and success responses rapidly and flexibly in a highly unpredictable world.

It's a neat, neat chapter - I hope - and one which I hope will help people to ponder just how significant social media may be for the future of humankind. Enjoy!

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