Conventional Wisdom is a Standing Wave of information.  But the Standing Wave is being blown away in the Tsunami that is the progress of Modern Information Technology. So many Davids, so many slings…so many Goliaths.

Neuroscientist and fiction writer David Eagleman presents “Six Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization.” Civilizations always think they’re immortal, Eagleman says, but they nearly always perish, leaving “nothing but ruins and scattered genetics.” It takes luck and new technology to survive.