Civilizational Metamaterials: Engineering Coordination Under Capability Gradients and Structural Turbulence

ArXi:2606.00235v1 Announce Type: cross We argue that governance must transition from a normative discipline to an engineering discipline, and we develop a formal framework, inspired by the physics of metamaterials, to make this transition quantitative and testable. Artificial General Intelligence affects civilization primarily by increasing decision velocity while human verification capacity remains bounded.