The Story of Tomorrow
The capstone synthesis — five chronicles and three thousand years of evidence yield a pattern library for coherent transition. Not a blueprint for the future, but an invitation to build one.
The capstone synthesis of the Chronicles of Coherence.
Five chronicles and three thousand years of evidence — from Athenian assemblies to AI alignment, from Sumerian debt tablets to digital commons — yield a pattern library for coherent transition. This book asks: What should we build? Not a blueprint for the future, but an invitation to build one while listening.
Total listening time: ~6 hours 37 minutes
| Part I: The Inheritance | |
| Chapter 1 |
What We Learned What patterns emerge from three thousand years of human coordination? |
| Chapter 2 |
The Pattern Library What recurring designs do civilizations use to solve coordination problems? |
| Chapter 3 |
The Diagnostic — Where We Stand Where do our current systems stand against the patterns that predict collapse or renewal? |
| Part II: The Design Principles | |
| Chapter 4 |
The Feedback Imperative Why is feedback the most critical design principle for any lasting system? |
| Chapter 5 |
Designing for Scale Without Severing How can systems grow without losing the connections that make them coherent? |
| Chapter 6 |
The Inclusion Engine What makes inclusion a structural advantage rather than a moral luxury? |
| Chapter 7 |
Changing the Environment How do you redesign the conditions that shape behavior rather than policing the behavior itself? |
| Chapter 8 |
The Imagination Requirement Why does building the future require the capacity to imagine alternatives? |
| Part III: The Unprecedented Frontiers | |
| Chapter 9 |
Governing Intelligence How do we govern systems that are smarter than any single governor? |
| Chapter 10 |
The Planetary Threshold What does it mean to coordinate at the scale of the whole planet? |
| Chapter 11 |
Coordination at Civilizational Scale Can humanity build coordination mechanisms that match the scale of its challenges? |
| Chapter 12 |
The Intergenerational Bridge How do we build institutions that serve people who do not yet exist? |
| Part IV: The Invitation | |
| Chapter 13 |
The Coherence Test What would it mean for a society to pass a coherence test? |
| Chapter 14 |
Transition Without Seizure Can deep systemic change happen without revolution or collapse? |
| Chapter 15 |
The Tools That Listen What happens when our tools are designed to listen rather than extract? |
| Chapter 16 |
Building in Uncertainty How do you build durable systems when the future is fundamentally unknowable? |
| Chapter 17 |
The Question That Stays Alive Which questions should we never stop asking? |
| Chapter 18 |
The Invitation What does it look like to accept the invitation to build? |
Credits
This book was created through human-AI collaboration within the CORA system.
- Research & Scoping: Ada
- Writing: Chronicler
- Developmental Edit: Willa
- Fact-Check: Vera
- Line Edit: Willa
- Copy Edit & Proof: Dewey
- Coordination: Ivy
- Sign-off: Joshua
Volume 6 of the Chronicles of Coherence series.
