Algorhythm publishes a second book under the scientific supervision of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

In January, Algorhythm published Introduction to the Future: The World in 2020, a collection of scientific articles on the way the world may have changed by 2020.

This second book focuses on the changes that may affect the individual over approximately the same period, the title being a nod in the direction of Francis Fukuyama’s book Our Posthuman Future.

The editorial preface argues that ‘a human being not only undergoes evolutionary changes but also unconsciously accelerates the evolutionary process via the most diverse technologies’.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky writes about a crisis in the human being’s self-esteem, as a result of which he rejects ‘the humanistic interpretation of the individual as equal to all others’, an argument which leads to embracing a racist perception of representatives of different cultures.

Biological evolution affects social evolution. Mikhail Khodorkovsky points to the emergence of ‘a new kind of inequality’, the inequality between those who are able to work creatively and those who are not. Inequality in a ‘new loop of biological evolution’ will once more bring into question the unity of humankind.

The collection contains articles by seven authors, who worked without a fee. The print-run is 2, 000 copies.

The first book, Introduction to the Future: The World in 2020, has sold well. The publishing house is currently preparing a second edition.