# Civilizational Synchronism

_Mykyta Zagamula; edited with AI assistance · updated 2026-09-13_

_Concept · https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/synchronism/_

**A philosophical movement that treats progress as the interconnected development of knowledge, technology, the human being, society and institutions, and proposes to make the detection of lags between them a standing function of civilisation.**

Its opening claim is that different areas of civilisation develop at different speeds. Because of this, humanity gains new capabilities before it has understood their consequences, its own nature, or the systems in which those capabilities will operate.

Synchronism proposes to find the fields that lag critically and to direct research attention, talent and resources there. Its final aim is a civilisation able to steer its own development deliberately.

The word «synchronisation» here means co-evolution, not equal speed: different fields need different tempos at different times.

## What is missing here

- **Question** (Generalist) — Name one field where you would expect the movement’s frame to fail, and say what would make that failure visible.

## Next

- Idea: The capability–understanding gap — https://synchronism.top/en/frame/gap/
- Idea: What this is not — https://synchronism.top/en/frame/not/
- Concept: Capability–Understanding Gap — https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/gap/
- Concept: Reflexive civilization — https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/reflexive/
- Concept: Synchronist — https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/synchronist/

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