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Three Converging Historical Cycles
- Three overlapping cycles (250y political, 50y technological, 80y financial) explain major historical shifts.
- All three cycles are converging now, producing unusually rapid systemic change.
Technology Creates Political Misfit
- Technological revolutions reshape how people organize, communicate, and how institutions function.
- Institutional systems built for prior tech paradigms become misfit and destabilize during transitions.
Industrial Era Built Centralized Authority
- The industrial era required top-down management to coordinate mass production and created centralized government systems.
- Those governance models now mismatch the information-age, peer-to-peer reality.