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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19125553 |
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- <p>How do we distinguish a civilisational transformation from a large-scale technological innovation? This paper introduces the Seven Lenses Framework, a comparative analytical instrument developed through the study of four technological revolutions: the Printing Press (1440), the Industrial Revolution (1760), the Digital Revolution (1989), and the AI Revolution (2022–present). The framework evaluates transformation across seven structural dimensions — Power, Worldview, Knowledge, Money, Work, Space, and Society — using two empirical criteria: velocity of adoption, measured by time to reach ten million users, and cross-domain impact beyond a technology’s primary field. The analysis reveals a 500-fold acceleration from the Printing Press to contemporary AI systems and identifies a structural anomaly: artificial intelligence exerts simultaneous pressure across all seven dimensions. This required a key analytical correction — the separation of Space and Society. Earlier revolutions reorganised social life through physical reconfiguration; AI reorganises collective life directly through cognition while geography remains comparatively stable. The framework is proposed as a reusable instrument for identifying future civilisational transformations.<br>This work is part of the OKKA Expanded Intelligence research program on human–synthetic cognition and governance.</p> <p>This work is part of the OKKA Expanded Intelligence research program on human–synthetic cognition and governance. The program investigates the transformation of intelligence, decision-making, and societal structures in the age of artificial intelligence through a combination of philosophical, methodological, and empirical approaches.</p>