The Shift from Industrial to Digital World: Social Decay and Disruption

In the current urban transience era, most people are isolated from those who are different from them, a result of both geographic reality and digital algorithms. Ben Sasse's book 'Them, Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal' discusses the grouping of Americans into anti-tribes and outlines the potential impact of the shift from an industrial to a digital world, predicting social decay and disruptive effects. He compares this shift to the transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, which caused significant social unrest. Sasse argues that the disruption from the industrial to the digital world will be even more extreme, highlighting the potential for catastrophic social disruption.