Summary of James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual

The Sovereign Individual (1997) intertwines the fields of history, technology, and economy to forecast where society is heading in the twenty-first century. James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg expected that citizens would gain increasing sovereignty over their lives in the coming Information Age, but they also foresaw the possibility of societal dysfunction. Their informed predictions are based on analyses of megapolitical patterns that have repeated through history, and many of them have turned out to accurately represent our world today.