As the electronic revolution merges with the biological evolution, we will have – if we don’t have it already – artificial intelligence, and artificial life, and will be struggling even more than now with issues such as the legal rights of robots, and whether you should allow your son to marry one, and who has custody of the offspring of such a union. Thus during the 21st century all historically experienced human processes – agriculture, industry, commerce, education, you name it – will come to an end … What is actually happening … is the merger of four information societies into one: the 4-billion-year-old genetic information society; the 10,000-year-old cultural information society; the 3,000-year-old civilizational society; and the 250-year-old industrial information society, all merging in the 21st century into one new “coming information society.”