FARSIGHT The Coming Entropic World Order w/ Parag Khanna
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Apr 1, 2026 
Parag Khanna, global strategic advisor and founder of AlphaGeo, uses maps and AI to rethink geopolitics. He discusses an entropic world order where power diffuses into a patchwork of states, corporations, and coalitions. Conversation touches on neo-medieval authority, infrastructure’s strategic role, climate coordination beyond the UN, migration control, and geospatial tools that map emerging risks.
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A Five-Meter Map In The Living Room
- Parag kept a dominant five-meter map as the centerpiece of his living room to visualize global infrastructure flows.
- He calls it 'Civilization with a capital C' and purposely leaves it untitled to let different viewers draw distinct meanings.
Maps Define Civilization's Structure
- Maps shape how we think about civilization and reveal infrastructure as the organizing logic of societies.
- Parag Khanna's five-meter living-room map illustrates global transportation, energy and communications as the visible anatomy of Civilization with a capital C.
Entropy Explains Power Diffusion
- Entropy describes the diffusion of authority as power disperses from hegemonic centers to many middling nodes.
- Khanna calls this a bottom-up world order where second-tier states form networks and regional foundations outside superpower hierarchies.
