KW Norton · work in progress

Don’t Fear the 21st Century Renaissance: Become the Renaissance

I dedicate this book to helping others.

Each chapter opens and closes on a question. Passages marked "draft for the author" are working drafts awaiting the author's own rewrite.

Contents

1. OpeningThe Time is Now
2. IntroductionIntroduction
3. Chapter OneBackstory
4. Chapter TwoPlay It As It Lays
5. Chapter ThreeAriadne’s Thread: A Set of Literary Engineers
6. Chapter FourAriadne: Unlikely Quantum Figurehead of Literary Code Breaking
7. Chapter FiveBreakdown of Newtonian Linear Bias
8. Chapter SixAmerican Westward Expansion and the Dream of California
9. Chapter SevenFrom Printing Press to Engineered Intelligence
10. Chapter EightOne Pillar Each: Irwin Casey West and Milton Brown West
11. Chapter NineThe Long Divergence: Twelve Thousand Years of Friction
12. Chapter TenFriction and the Leap
13. Chapter ElevenKaleidoscopic Transformation and the Six Renaissances
14. Chapter TwelveThe Wildcard: Engineered Intelligence and Days of Future Passed
15. Chapter ThirteenCan, Can't, and Probably
16. Chapter FourteenWhat Can Go Right
17. Chapter FifteenThe Rewired Mind
18. ClosingPass It On
19. AppendixThe Track Record: Earlier Work Behind This Book