Overview
We once lived by dawn and dusk, season and harvest, rest and recovery. Modern civilization still speaks in the language of human life, but increasingly it operates in the language of systems.
In The Age of Systems, Nolan Verran examines what happens when clocks, institutions, markets, metrics, platforms, automation, and artificial intelligence stop serving human rhythms and start replacing them. The result is not just a faster society. It is a different human environment, one that rewards continuity over depth, optimization over meaning, and coordination over wisdom.
This is not a book of technological panic. It is a book of recognition. It asks how modern systems reshape time, identity, attention, embodiment, relationship, and freedom, and why so many people feel efficient yet strangely removed from life itself.
Philosophical, accessible, and urgent, The Age of Systems is for readers who want to understand the deepest transition underway in modern civilization and the human question hidden inside it: can a society built for systems still remain fully human?
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798254203186
- ISBN-10: 9798254203186
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: March 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.41 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.58 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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