The Future Isn't Coming. It's Here. Are You Ready for the Rupture?

Understanding High-Velocity Disruption is your essential guide to navigating the unprecedented speed and scale of the AI revolution. This book decodes the forces reshaping our world, equipping you not just to survive the change, but to lead it.

For centuries, human progress has been defined by distinct technological revolutions that unfolded over decades. That era is over. We are now living in a period of “high-velocity disruption,” where the compounding effect of Artificial Intelligence on converging technologies is causing a “historical rupture”—a fundamental break from all previous patterns of development.

Understanding High-Velocity Disruption provides a lucid framework for making sense of the most transformative epoch in human history. Author Gregory Tanner moves beyond the hype to decode the grammar of the AI revolution, from the foundational drivers of digitalization and miniaturization to the synergistic forces of Combination, Convergence, and Compounding (the “3Cs”) that are reshaping our reality.

This is not just another book about technology; it is a compass for a new world. 5 It explores:

• The Meta-Accelerator: How AI is not just another tool, but the “jet fuel” accelerating the very process of innovation itself.

• The Four Pillars: A deep dive into the NBIC (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science) framework, revealing how these fields are merging to create previously unimaginable capabilities.

• A New Human Condition: How intelligent technical systems are challenging the very definitions of creativity, agency, and what it means to be human, forcing us toward a post-human horizon.

• The Future of Business: An analysis of how AI is rendering traditional business models obsolete while creating new, “Al-native” autonomous enterprises.

• Ethical Frontiers: A critical look at the profound ethical dilemmas surrounding AI, from algorithmic bias and “neuro-rights” to the societal challenge of human enhancement.

The future won’t wait for you to catch up. This book will give you the tools to understand, anticipate, and harness the forces that are shaping what comes next.

Gregory Tanner is the CEO of Cynthetic Systems, an AI-driven cybersecurity and IT modernization company. A forward-thinking technologist and strategist, he and his team were early adopters of large language models, integrating ChatGPT into their operations in November 2022. This hands-on experience sparked a deeper investigation into the compounding effects of AI, leading him to identify the patterns of high-velocity disruption that are now reshaping entire industries.

Tanner’s work is defined by his ability to translate complex technological shifts into executable insights. From his early days navigating the dot-com boom to his current work building agentic AI systems, he has consistently focused on leveraging technology to gain a competitive edge and build the businesses of the future. He wrote this book to motivate others to move from being mere dabblers in AI to becoming true AI value creators in this pivotal moment of human history.