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Epoch Shift: Why There Is No "Post-Digital" After Phase

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: The article introduces a phase model of digital penetration — Digitization, Digitalization, Digital Transformation — and argues that Agentic AI operates primarily within Phases 1 and 2, not as the driver of deeper societal reordering. After Phase 3, the model ends: what follows is not a Phase 4 but an epoch shift — a categorical break in which human cognitive dominance across broad task domains ends for the first time in history. The text examines consequences across military, medical, educational, and organizational domains.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19320899

Author: Schnuerer, Miriam

Language: English

Topic: Information Society and Technology Trends

Subfield: General Social Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7142987847

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