each of us. This is why we say that if in the past the most important things happened in public - wars, riots, and elections - in the future many of the most powerful shifts will, rather worryingly, occur in secret. Fourth, we met the New Caste that masters many of these hot cores of power, for good and ill. Past eras were dominated by merchants, sages and soldiers who competed and collaborated in the pursuit of power. Now a new, young technological group is appearing. The nations and companies that train and equip them best of them will have an incalculable advantage. But there’s a hitch: As much as this group knows about networks, they know little about history or politics or economics. Dangerously, they often see the world as a machine to be coded. Fifth, we unearthed a new and invisible set of landscapes that will decide much of our future. These are called “topologies” and they are the connected fields on which power moves now. The web where stocks are traded, cyber attacks occur, imports are moved, or biological data are recorded and studied - each of these is a crucial topology. Control of them will be as important in the future as control of sea or air or capital once was. And, finally, we learned what the networks are for: The compression of time. For all their technical magnificence, we find that beating in the cold technological heart of these systems is a most human desires, to negotiate a bit the one really inarguable constant of our lives: We are all burning candles. The compression of time is why we connect. It lets us do more, experience differently, live longer. What the demand for liberty was to the Enlightenment, the call to compress time will be in our future - a fundamental political demand. None of our existing institutions have been built to answer this cry. These six elements make up a rough outline of a new sensibility. To see them at work in the world is the mark of a powerful way of thinking and feeling. The Seventh Sense. And this is impo