Die wunderliche Welt von morgen

1 Author and origin

The author of the manifesto is the German writer Maik Hosang, associated with the environment of metamodernism. A substantive peculiarity of its origin lies in the explicit co-authorship with the AI system Perplexity.ai, indicated on the title page and in the bibliographic self-description of the publisher.^[1]

This transparent co-authorship between human author and AI system makes the manifesto an early case in point of the publicist practice that the online magazine The Digioneer, in relation to its own practice, formalises under the MERGED concept.

2 Structure and content

2.1 Utopia as necessity

The starting point of the manifesto is the thesis that the coming scarcities of humanity will be not material but psychological and existential in nature. Once robotics, artificial intelligence and unlimited energy remove the bulk of material worries, the central challenge shifts to the interior of the human being.

2.2 Mother Teresa and Elon Musk

A key literary scene of the manifesto shows Mother Teresa appearing to Elon Musk in a dream, encouraging him not toward asceticism but toward a liberation through technological abundance. The scene functions as a destabilisation of conventional redemption narratives and marks a central point of the book: spiritual and technological forms of life are thought not as opposites but as complementary figures.

2.3 Universal High Income (UHI)

From the thesis of material relief follows for Hosang not the well-known model of an unconditional basic income, but its radical intensification: a Universal High Income (UHI) that signifies not a subsistence minimum but an abundance income for all. UHI is conceived as the economic consequence of a world in which human wage-labour has become obsolete.

2.4 Meta-consciousness

Hosang introduces the concept of meta-consciousness as a new operating system for humanity. Three practices and technologies are named as its concrete forms of realisation:

• Flow 2.0 — EEG-supported control and reproducibility of creative states of consciousness.
• Psychedelic programming — the targeted use of psychedelic substances to rewrite neural blockages.
• The noosphere — technologically mediated global networking into a collective intelligence.

The reference to the noosphere connects the manifesto with the conceptual tradition of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and thus also with the etymological and intellectual environment of the term The Noocene.

2.5 The four existential fears

The psychological core of the manifesto is formed by four existential fears, which Hosang identifies as the typical forms of resistance to a world of abundance:

• Scar fear — the fear of losing an identity that defines itself through suffering endured.
• Error fear — the worry about an algorithmically optimised cosmos in which the faulty, as the site of the human, disappears.
• Control fear — the concern about losing individual sovereignty through global networking.
• Power fear — the anxiety of established elites over their own irrelevance in a decentralised intelligence.

2.6 Humoronia

In the epilogue, Hosang presents Humoronia as the answer to the four fears. The word is a portmanteau of humour, irony and harmony; it denotes a metamodern basic attitude that allows one to laugh at one's own psychological scars, to bear contradictions and to understand life as a divine play rather than a struggle for survival.^[1]

Instead of a technocratic blueprint for the world of tomorrow, an attitude is thereby recommended as a central category of shaping the future — a shift of the discussion from the what of the future onto the how of its inhabitants.

3 Relations to the Noocene

The manifesto expressly names the term The Noocene as an "epoch concept for the era of conscious human co-evolution with intelligent systems" and ascribes its coinage to Phil Roosen.^[1] This is thus one of the first documented uses of the term in an independent publicist context. (Note: The identity-layers restructuring of 31 August 2026 clarifies that the term was in fact coined by Michael Kainz; Roosen is its literary and editorial vehicle. Hosang's ascription reflects the state of the discussion prior to that clarification.)

Points of substantive contact with the Noocene concept exist in particular in the following respects:

• the shared recourse to the noosphere as a conceptual anchor;
• the assumption of a hybrid assemblage of actors composed of human and machine intelligence as constitutive of the epoch;
• the willingness to prefer a cultural-cognitive rather than a purely technical description of the age (cf. the consciousness-field reading of the concept of nous).

4 Reception

On 17 March 2026 — the same day on which the definition of the term The Noocene was first published in The Digioneer — a detailed review of the manifesto by Michael Kainz, the publisher of the magazine, appeared there.^[2] The review recommends the work in particular to "future-shapers and tech enthusiasts", because it consistently withdraws from the currently dominant rhetoric of dystopia.

5 Criticism

Michael Kainz's review names three main objections to the manifesto:

• Techno-solutionism: the pervasive software metaphors run the risk of dissolving social complexity prematurely into technical feasibility.
• Escapism: the extended science-fiction passages may distract from present structural problems.
• Under-illuminated role of AI: the co-authorship with Perplexity.ai is barely reflected in the work itself; the methodological implications of this hybrid authorship remain unarticulated.^[2]

6 Bibliographic details

Maik Hosang (with Perplexity.ai): Die wunderliche Welt von morgen — Ein Manifest der Humoronie. Metamodern Verlag, [publication year]. Available via the Metamodern Verlag (cocre.eu) and via Amazon.

7 See also

• The Noocene (epoch concept)
• Metamodernism
• Noosphere
• Universal basic income
• Phil Roosen (editor-in-chief, The Digioneer)
• Michael Kainz (reviewer, publisher of The Digioneer)
• The Digioneer (place of publication of the review)

8 External links

• Review of Die wunderliche Welt von morgen in The Digioneer
• Metamodern Verlag (cocre.eu)

9 References

1. Maik Hosang (with Perplexity.ai): Die wunderliche Welt von morgen — Ein Manifest der Humoronie. Metamodern Verlag, [publication year]. Content rendering following the review referenced in source [2].
2. Michael Kainz: Review of Die wunderliche Welt von morgen — Ein Manifest der Humoronie. In: The Digioneer, 17 March 2026. Online: digioneer.pro/die-wunderliche-welt-von-morgen-ein-manifest-der-humoronie.