The world is changing, but not nearly fast enough.
Over thirty wide-ranging articles and essays show how humanity's worst problems can all be reduced to the most basic one: the friction between complex social systems.
The most blatant interface problem is software, but it also affects education, mass movements and trends, poverty in all its forms, and ultimately politics.
The second half of the book features extreme speculations about the nature of progress, the universe, technology, awareness, futurism and science fiction, and the long-term evolution of mankind.
The future has not yet begun.