2100: How Civilization Avoids Collapse: A Framework for Survival in an Age of Complexity

Civilization has never had a blueprint.It survives by constantly modifying itself at the edge of failure.2100: Civilization's Self-Rescue in Complexity is not a conventional futurist book. It does not try to predict which technologies will dominate the year 2100. Instead, it asks a more fundamental question: How can civilization remain operational as complexity continues to rise?This book traces a new chain of civilizational risk: interruption → access → qualification → cost → legitimacy distortion → UBAC → meaning → emergenceIn the age of AI and automation, the deepest transformation may not be technological. It may be structural.- Defense is no longer only about borders, but about nodes.- AI is no longer merely a tool, but an access layer.- Labor no longer automatically grants qualification for distribution.- Rules may continue to operate while losing their legitimacy.- People may still exist inside the system while no longer truly participating in civilization.The book introduces UBAC - a basic access protocol for civilization - as a way to ask: When work no longer reliably proves that a person should be included, how does civilization confirm that a person still counts?Ultimately, this is not only a book about the future.It is a book about whether civilization can remain operational without defaulting to the deletion of human beings.