The article is the third of six insights dedicated to the main themes of the book “The Sovereign Individual”, the work written by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson.

The transition from industrial society to information society represents one of the most profound and disruptive revolutions in human history. According to the authors of the book “The Sovereign Individual”, this transformation will have social and economic consequences of historic scope, characterized by an ambivalent nature that promises both opportunities and risks at the same time.

The ongoing change will redraw the map of global inequalities. Within individual nations, we will witness an increase in economic disparities. Cognitive skills and innovation capabilities will become the new gold of the digital economy, rewarding like never before those who know how to navigate cyberspace. On the contrary, manual and repetitive jobs—pillars of the industrial era—are destined to disappear, replaced by what the authors call “digital servants”.

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