Free or Alive?: The Controversial Origin of Universal Future – the new book of Dr. Lubomir Todorov

Free or Alive?: The Controversial Origin of Universal Future – the new book of Dr. Lubomir Todorov

Editorial Review by Dr. Jayshree Pandya, Founder, and CEO:  Risk Group

Free or Alive?: The Controversial Origin of Universal Future is a thoughtful, logical, and highly-readable thought leadership. Dr. Todorov has masterfully taken us on a convincing journey towards Civilizational thinking into a Universal Future to optimize the entire human ecosystem in the Anthropocene age and beyond.

Dr. Todorov brings to light the much-needed discussion on the “Free or Alive” dilemma. The book highlights the evolutionary limitation of the human survival tools and strategies for individual existence. It emphasizes the power of the collective approach and the need for civilization thinking to protect the future of humanity. It forces us to consider whether we as individuals should focus on our free will to survive beyond the coming technology-triggered turbulence or come together as a civilization to define and protect our collective future. The book proves a fundamental need for cooperation and collaboration to defend our civilization, requiring limited freedom to do anything that may hurt others. Yet, as seen today from the perspective of managing individual risks, the systems we have in place ignore the need to address the integrated risks. So, it is crucial to understand that there is a need for a new approach to recognize the role each of us needs to play in our individual and collective journeys.

While we embark on creating new universes and take a step forward to make humanity a multi-planetary species, the reality remains that we humans are losing control of our individual security narrative. Beyond the ineffective systems in place, much of that is also due to our inherent brain capabilities and biological sensors that have made our risk prediction methods obsolete. Although we are creating a new intelligent species that may complement our evolutionary weaknesses, identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, and addressing the unknown unknowns that exist, evolve, and modify within our personal and collective reality remains a complex challenge for the future of humanity. Therefore, we must confront our civilization challenges.

Dr. Todorov’s vision for the future of humanity is one where freedom, security, and collaboration between all individuals across nations ensure that our civilization can thrive despite our evolutionary limitations. The book emphasizes the Civilizational Strategy—an approach that can question the viability of any modern political system to lead to where people want to be and reminds us that the Universal Future is not a utopia. This important book is a must-read and should be at the forefront of our civilization strategy.