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Recursive Shear

Why Civilization is Accelerating Beyond Human Capacities - and How We Regain Control

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Pub Date 26 Mar 2026 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2026

Computers & Technology | Nonfiction (Adult) | Politics & Current Affairs

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Technology is accelerating faster than our ability to understand, regulate, or control it. Governments lag. Institutions stall. And the gap between what we create and what we can manage is widening every day.

Recursive Shear names this growing fracture—and explains why it’s not just a temporary disruption, but a compounding force pushing modern society toward instability.

This book explores how we got here, why traditional systems are failing under exponential pressure, and what it will take to rebuild resilience, agency, and control in a world that is no longer moving at human speed.

Technology is accelerating faster than our ability to understand, regulate, or control it. Governments lag. Institutions stall. And the gap between what we create and what we can manage is widening...

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A Note From the Publisher

Recursive Shear is a timely work of nonfiction exploring the widening gap between accelerating technological change and the slower pace of human adaptation, institutions, and culture. It will appeal to readers interested in science and society, artificial intelligence, futurism, systems thinking, and big-idea nonfiction.

Recursive Shear is a timely work of nonfiction exploring the widening gap between accelerating technological change and the slower pace of human adaptation, institutions, and culture. It will appeal...

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