The Book On The Shape of What's Coming: Why Everything Feels Broken, and What's Actually Taking Shape...

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Alex Nova

The Book On The Shape of What's Coming

Why Everything Feels Broken, and What's Actually Taking Shape Beneath the Surface

Alex Nova

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English

Book on Publishing
29 June 2025

Philosophy; Physics; Artificial intelligence

Series: The Book on

The Book On The Shape of What's Coming: Why Everything Feels Broken, and What's Actually Taking Shape Beneath the Surface reveals the hidden architecture of a world in transition.

We're not just living through technological change-we're living through a shift in how reality itself is organized. Quantum mechanics, topological design, and networked intelligence are breaking the old rules of certainty, stability, and control. What feels like collapse is actually the birth of new patterns.

Alex Nova translates this complexity for readers who sense that something deeper is happening beneath the headlines. Through sober analysis, frameworks, and vivid explanation, the book explores:

How quantum logic and topological materials are reshaping computation and matter. Why resilience will replace optimization as the design principle of the century. How AI, networks, and systems thinking are converging into new forms of intelligence. What it means to be a citizen in a quantum age-where participation, not prediction, determines outcomes. The moral and civic questions raised by entangled futures: democracy, scarcity, legacy, and belonging.

This is not a manifesto of doom or techno-utopia. It's a map. A guide for thinkers, builders, and citizens who want to understand the next civilizational stack and navigate it with clarity.

Because the future isn't arriving from outside. It's emerging from within.

By: Alex Nova
Imprint: Book on Publishing
Volume: 11
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9781997795759
ISBN 10: 1997795752
Series: The Book on
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 29 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Nova is a systems theorist, public educator, and futurist dedicated to translating complexity into clarity. As the author of The Shape of What's Coming, Nova guides readers through one of the most profound transformations in civilization's history, the rise of quantum and topological technologies, and their impact on how we think, relate, and build. With academic roots in epistemology, complex systems, and human-centred design, Mr. Nova is known for bridging the technical and the existential. Before turning to writing full-time, they advised civic labs, taught interdisciplinary design, and worked at the seams of ethics, intelligence, and infrastructure. Always a translator between worlds, Nova's passion is not just to inform, but to equip. The Shape of What's Coming emerged from a simple but powerful conviction: that the public must not be left behind in a future being shaped without them. Across five immersive sections, Nova invites readers to grasp the tools, metaphors, and movements reshaping civilization, not with fear, but with wonder, literacy, and agency. Mr. Nova lives between cities and silence, often off-grid and always online. He believes the most important revolutions begin in language, and that the future is not something we inherit, but something we author. This is Mr. Nova's first major nonfiction work for a global audience.