Catching the Next Wave

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For forty years, we've been told that faster processors, larger models, and more data will eventually produce understanding. They haven't. After four decades of building the systems that power the digital world, software developer and independent researcher Peter W. Meyers argues that the failure isn't technical — it's structural. Digital systems process without being changed. They copy without integrating. They handle consequence without retaining it. And no amount of computational power will close that gap, because the gap is architectural.

Catching the Next Wave traces the analog-digital tension from the origins of perception through the industrial age, the attention economy, and the rise of artificial intelligence — and finds that the conditions for experience, understanding, and responsibility are being systematically thinned by the very systems designed to extend them. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, cybernetics, and emerging research in biological computation, it argues that the next leap forward will not come from faster silicon but from substrates that remember what they process.

A companion work, The Experiential Field, provides the formal philosophical framework. This book tells the story.