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Volume 1
Part One: Laying the Groundwork
Chapter 1
1.1 The Art and Science of History
1.2 The First Four Phases of Civilization
1.3 History and Technology
1.4 A Brief History of Computing
1.5 Forecasting the Future
1.6 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 2
2.1 The Kinds of Knowing
2.2 The Nature of Scientific Enquiry
2.3 The Role of Abstraction
2.4 Science, Technology, and Technique
2.5 Science and Technology—Practice and Practitioners
2.6 The Technological Society?
2.7 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 3
3.1 What is the Study of Ethics?
3.2 Moral Philosophy—The Good, the Right, and the Loving
3.3 Ethics and Pure Reason—The Legacy of The Greek Philosophers
3.4 The Non Absolutist Philosophers—Morals are Decided Upon
3.5 Traditional Absolutism
3.6 From Theory to Decision—Practical Morality
3.7 Summary and Further Discussion
Part Two: Four Wave Fronts on a Sea of Change
Chapter 4
4.1 What is Information?
4.2 The Information Technologies
4.3 The Availability of Information
4.4 Toward The Metalibrary
4.5 The Accuracy and Security of Information
4.6 Information Analysis and Decision Making
4.7 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 5
5.1 Tracing a Second Industrial Revolution
5.2 Robots and the New Industries
5.3 Work and Workers in the New Society
5.4 Some Issues in Automation and Robotization
5.5 Other Industrial Futures
5.6 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 6
6.1 Building Thinking Machines
6.2 Simulating Human Intelligence
6.3 Augmenting Human Intelligence
6.4 Issues in Large Language AI Programs
6.5 More Issues in Artificial Intelligence
6.6 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 7
7.1 Life in Time and Space—Defining the Biospace
7.2 Disease and Surgery
7.3 Engineered Medicine
7.4 Engineering New Life Forms
7.5 Human Genetic Engineering
7.6 Rights, Health Care, and Life
7.7 The Environment and Human Life
7.8 Building New Environments
7.9 Summary and Further Discussion
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Volume 2
Part Three: Ethics and the Institutions of the Fourth Civilization
Chapter 8
8.1 Foundations of Business and Economics
8.2 Technology, Business, and Economies
8.3 Wealth in the New Era
8.4 Technology and Business Organizations
8.5 Financial Techniques in the New Economy
8.6 Business Ethics and Technology
8.7 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 9
9.1 Foundations for Law and the State
9.2 Technology and the State—Big Brother and Little Sister
9.3 Technology and War
9.3.1 Confrontation Outcome Scenarios
9.3.2 Other Kinds of War
9.3.3 Policing a Peace
9.3.4 Summary
9.4 Some Legal Problems for the Next Age
9.4.1 An Overview of Current Problems
9.4.2 The State of the Law
9.4.3 The Insufficiency of Law Alone
9.4.4 Proposed Remedies
9.4.5 Summary
9.5 Technocrime
9.6 Ethics, the Law, and the State
9.7 Solving the Problems
9.8 New State and Legal Forms for the New Age
9.9 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 10
10.1 Foundations—Theories of Learning
10.2 Learning, Education, and Training
10.3 The Content of Learning in the Cultural Context
10.4 Issues in Formal Learning
10.5 Education and Technology
10.6 Schooling in the Fourth Civilization
10.7 The Role of the University
10.8 Summary and Further Discussion
Chapter 11
11.1 Foundations of the Study of Religion
11.2 The Major World Religions
11.3 Christianity and Science
11.3.1 Rome to Galileo
11.3.2 Reason in Science and Protestantism
11.3.3 The Partnership Dissolves
11.4 The Debate Over Origins—Illustrating Worldview Clashes
11.5 Learning How to Conduct Debates
11.6 Science, Technology, and Religion from the Twentieth Century Onward
11.7 Summary and Further Discussion
Part Four: Quo Vadis—Directions for People, Society, and Technology
Chapter 12
12.1 A Caveat Concerning Futures
12.2 The Case for Integration
12.2.1 Integration as a Process of Consilience
12.2.2 Integration to Show Concinnity
12.3 Aspects of Integration
12.4 Integration and Relationships
12.5 Integration and Society
12.6 Renaissance and Reformation in the Fourth Civilization
12.7 Missing the Mark—Some Difficulties
12.8 Technique And The Fourth Civilization
12.9 Summary and Further Discussion
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