A Vision of the New Civilization Era

Abstract

This chapter is organized as follows. After stressing the importance of having a vision on the verge of the new era of knowledge civilization, we turn to concepts and ideas leading to a cultural platform, meaning the set of fundamental concepts essential for understanding the world in the new era. Then we turn to current perceptions about the nature of the new era and address the essential part of the vision: what problems of humanity should we solve (and how we could solve them). We then discuss the main megatrends of the new era, the impact of digital and network technologies, changes in economic behavior and in economics, changes in social behavior and in sociology, the main predictable conflicts of the coming era, the main stages of the coming era and our essential obligations.