America and the world are on the verge of a new civilization of collaboration and cooperation-a revolution without gunfire. Technology has sped up human evolution in such an exponential way that we are now at the horizon of a new, more peaceful global community. Starting where the 1997 book The Fourth Turning ends, The First Turning: A Vision of America and a World at Peace explores the people, institutions and inventions that are creating this worldwide climate of positive change and hope for the future.