A NEW HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

Every society depends on a wager it rarely names: that it can raise children capable of carrying forward a world the adults themselves will not live long enough to see.

Yet we often speak about politics, technology, economies, war, and institutions as if childhood exists outside history. KINchallenges that assumption.

Across human history, the way societies have raised children has shaped the kind of people they produced — obedient subjects, faithful believers, factory workers, citizens, consumers, digital natives, and perhaps, soon, children raised alongside artificial intelligence.

KIN follows that thread from the first human infants on the African savannah to the possible future of childhood in an age of algorithms, climate anxiety, and synthetic biology.

At its heart, the book asks:

What kind of people are we raising — and what kind of world is raising them?