In this thread [1]
[1]: https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/macrobius-makes-predictions-for-2025-2026.1680/
I promised an ‘environmental analysis’ (as it is called in reference to the business environment) for 2025-2026 and only got most of the way through the P in PEST (Politics, Economics, Society, Technology). This thread is a home for the T part, even if I don’t do a complete analysis today.
In terms of the gestalt of all four, P, E, S, T it is pretty clear that ‘modernity’ is coming apart at the seems[2] (pun intentional) — in all four areas at once, in a way discussed in the _King in Orange_[3]
[2]: https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/the-death-throes-of-modernity.1984/
[3]: https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/john-michael-greer-the-king-in-orange-trump.1676/
Technology, which in Neo-Platonic terms is the same as ‘The (Practical) Arts’, compared to Speculation (Science), is certainly playing its part, as are the three ‘economic’ systems of Domestic Economy (home life), Political Economy (communal or society life), and the Divine Economy of the Church and Eschatological Empire (the spiritual life and destiny of Mankind).
The key facts around technology, and I will be primarily speaking to Information Technology here since the manufacturing and service sectors of technology are quite mature and pre-COVID were almost static, have been, recently dominated by Deep Learning AIs — LLMs (Large Language Models) in particular — and ‘crypto’, meaning both the use of mathematical Crytography for ‘security engineering’ and heuristic solution to certain problems of decentralised computing we call ‘the blockchain’, starting with Bitcoin and then Ethereum, but moving far beyond these two large players.
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