Digital Sphere: The (Real) "Great Reset"
"I was nauseated, simply nauseated . . . " -- David Brooks (NYTimes Columnist)
In June 2020, then-Prince-now-King Charles III (i.e. the remnant of the moribund British Empire) announced the "Great Reset Initiative" in a video promising "sustainable development" for a world recovering from the impact of Covid-19. Along with the IMF and others, Klaus Schwab, CEO of the World Economic Forum (aka "Davos"), climbed onboard, offering a "economic recovery plan" based on a "stakeholder economy" (a phrase associated with Mark Carney, then head of the Bank of England, now running Canada), tallied using "ESG metrics" and the sweeping "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (the title of Schwab's 2015 book). Five years later, ESG is being abandoned by investors (for not working), AI has seized the stock market, and Donald Trump is driving the global agenda. No, none of this was in the original briefing books.
Instead, the world "system" is being Reset in a completely different way. Development at a fundamental level is motivating the *real* Reset. No, this is not "Green" development. The Ukraine War -- often thought of as the beginning of WW III -- is pointing toward a thorough and joint realignment of Global security and economics. Security through development. Along with many other institutions, NATO seems unlikely to survive. Instead, negotiations are underway to reset the relationship between the U.S.A. (previously NATO's "backstop") and the BRICS "bloc" (still "loose knit," but expanding and increasingly coherent). Russia and China. And many more. All this is being driven by the Digital Paradigm-shift. And the King (plus his newly revealed "play-list") is not involved.
What Would Henry Say?
Perhaps no one will be remembered as an architect of the previous "Globalist" new-world-order more than Henry Kissinger (1923-2023). From his 400+ page 1950 Harvard undergraduate thesis, The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant, to his same-school 1954 doctoral thesis, Peace, Legitimacy, and the Equilibrium (A Study of the Statesmanship of Castlereach and Mettenich), Kissinger enjoyed a rare grasp of Western intellectual and geopolitical history. His association with the Rockefellers (particularly Nelson, the politician), elevated him to leading the "Special Studies Project" (gathering the group who later became JFK's "Camelot"). Henry's personal engagement with this history -- as it developed -- was unparalleled.
So, when he co-authored The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (2021) with entrepreneur/investor Eric Schmidt and computer-scientist Daniel Huttenlocher, you might have thought that the geopolitical world would take notice. Alas, they didn't. The follow-on posthumous book, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit (2024), again with Schmidt and, this time with Craig Mundle, a one-time Microsoft executive, it didn't move the needle either. Henry saw what was coming. And it seems that the world of realpolitik had lost touch with reality.
Henry said that AI changes everything. He was worried about what would happen to the humans. Justifiably. He knew that his life's-work, attempting to achieve geopolitical "stability" -- just as Metternich had done -- was no longer possible near-term. "Strategy" under conditions of AI could not be the same as under the previous "Rules based Order." He knew that history had taken on a new "meaning." He was a front-row seat witness to one of most important "discontinuities" in that always-tumultuous history. And he knew it.
Kissinger met Schmidt at a meeting of the storied Bilderberger Group. Founded in 1954 and once widely regarded as the "core" of global elite planning (with total secrecy and the "conspiracy theories" that follow this behavior -- btw, now publishing its attendees list and agenda online), Bilderberg has gone Digital. It's Steering Committee now includes both Peter Thiel (investor and backer of VP J.D. Vance) and his Palantir sidekick Alex Karp (now the co-author of the 2025 Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and, once again, Eric Schmidt (listed as "Former CEO, Chair; Google LLC). Yes, the bankers are still there. Goldman Sachs. Banco Santander. Skandinaviska. Deutsche Bank. And so are the media moguls -- Bloomberg, The Economist, Zakaria &c. But David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger are gone. Now these "masters-of-the-universe" are being briefed by the Silicon Valley "oligarchs."
The same people who have now teamed up with Donald Trump. DOGE. While doing podcasts about the "Anti-Christ." Outsiders. Insiders. The Digital Sphere. No, you can't tell the players without a scorecard . . . !!
[For clarity sake, Exogenous, Inc., and this EXO Substack, ultimately derive from the work of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA, 1973-2025) and its founding Director Andrew W. Marshall (1921-2019), who many considered to be one of Henry Kissinger's only serious "rivals." We describe our work as Digital Net Assessment (DNA).]
The Digital Sphere
What does the world look like *after* Globalism? We describe it as Three Spheres: East, West and Digital. Yes, that’s a simplification but it should be easy to grasp. China is East. The U.S.A. is West. And those who now "run the world" are Digital. Simple (yes, precisely because it's always way more complicated). Pareto and his "circulation of elites" fit right in --even if he didn't grasp the technological/formal causality involved.
China launched its "Informatization" initiative in 1999 and has incorporated this shift to Digital for 20+ years into all its planning. From the inside-out. Not in opposition but in full-throated deployment. Today, China is teaching the principles of using AI starting in grade-school. Everywhere. Not to replace the humans but, in gaming parlance, to "level-up." The Chinese have an "Operating System" that has been refined and upgraded. Now on Release 5.0. Stable. Yielding results. Generating confidence.
The U.S.A. (and Europe) got lost. UN "Sustainability Goals." Black Lives Matter. Regulating/anti-trusting technology. Printing money. Trans-sexual rights. Open borders. "The Great Reset." The "End of History" (and "we" won, in case anyone asks).
But now that train-of-history, fueled by new technologies, is trying to get back on track. Pointed in the right direction (okay, for Europe, not so much). Lawyers and English majors aren't in the wheelhouse anymore. Computer scientists and entrepreneurs are shoveling the digital coal. As the Little Engine put it, "I Think I Can" is now back in our vocabulary.
As discussed in a recent Jim Rutt Show podcast/interview, Trump as the Avatar of the Digital Paradigm Shift, the transition now underway appears on Television as a "takeover." A "Coup D’états." An anti-democratic "tyranny." Even asserting that the Borg is imposing its slogan "Resistance is Futile" on us all. But even the "resistors" voted for the Continuing Resolution to keep the U.S.A. funded. Might they have an inkling of the need for a *real* reset? Do they know that Globalism is dead? Do they want someone else to do the hard work, and take the arrows for their trouble? Do they know that King Charles is a buffoon?
Henry Kissinger could see this coming. Bilderberg can see this coming. EXO can see this coming, in fact, we've been leading a parade of people who can see this coming. It's a "secret hiding in plain sight" (just as Poe told us it should be). EXO can help those who want to work together to take advantage of the Digital future, which, as William Gibson suggested, is already here (if not yet evenly distributed) . . . !!