The Age of Human Civilisation - Audiobook Series

The Age of Human Civilisation is an eight-book exploration of how humanity has built, transformed and reimagined civilisation — from the foundations of money and technology to the systems of truth, ideology, economics and power that shape our world.

Human civilisation is not a finished creation. It is an evolving system, continually reshaped by the tools we develop, the values we adopt and the institutions we build.

Money transformed how humanity exchanged value. Debt transformed how we imagined the future. Technology transformed what we could create and how quickly societies could change. Over the past century, extraordinary advances in health, housing, rights, communication and living standards have changed everyday life across much of the world, while also creating new challenges around inequality, sustainability, information and power.

Now artificial intelligence, automation, digital networks and new forms of ownership are beginning to challenge many of the assumptions on which modern civilisation was built.

Across eight books, The Age of Human Civilisation traces these transformations and explores the deeper patterns connecting them.

From the history and future of money, to the problem of perpetual debt; from humanity's first fires to the digital cloud; from a century of global progress to the changing nature of truth; from the history of ideology to the possibility of moving beyond AI capitalism; and from the hidden patterns of global systems to the possibility of a great reorganisation of society.

Together, the books ask a fundamental question:

What happens when humanity becomes capable not only of changing the world, but of consciously redesigning the systems that govern it?

This is a story of where we came from, what we have built, what is changing, and what we might become.

The Age of Human Civilisation is ultimately an exploration of humanity's greatest project: civilisation itself.