History Has Begun

Bruno Maçães proposes a provocative thesis: history, in the traditional sense, ended in Europe and began in the United States and the non-Western world. Analyzing contemporary geopolitical, technological, and cultural transformations, the author argues that we are living through a period of rupture in which old structures give way to new forms of power and organization. An ambitious meditation on the present as a moment of historical transition and the forces shaping our collective future.

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Marc AndreessenEntrepreneur and investor · Netscape, a16z

”on the country and culture the United States is evolving into, not necessarily decline, but something very different.”

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