Book

The Disruption of Thought

Yes – the way you think is being disrupted.  In The Disruption of Thought I lay out how technology is doing that. But, it’s not an altogether bad story. 

It is eclectic book combining insights from several fields, including neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, psychology, philosophy, economics, sociology, and technology.

It lays out a new(ish) model of human thought that explains thinking as an emergent property arising from meta-modular connections across three planes – biological (modules within the embodied brain), cultural (modules socially constructed and shared across time, place and people), and technological (modules spanning the material/digital things and technology around us).

The book uses that framework to show the massive change that is occurring across all three planes.

Makes the case that the sum of these changes is an emergent ‘disruption of thought’ – the consequences of which become the most important issue facing humanity, one few if any are aware of and working to address. The importance stems from a) the disruption being root cause for the existential social and cultural problems that are facing modern civilization, and b) the disruption undermines our collective ability to collaborate on other complex problems of existential importance (e.g. climate change).

These novel concepts have been reviewed by over 100 thought leaders from around the world across fields as diverse as neuroscience, national security, and technology, and the findings have been highly supported.

Available Fall 2025 from Brill Press.

Foreword by Vint Cerf ‘father of the Internet’