Executive Summary​

The historical arc of human civilization has been defined by navigational necessity: the imperative to master physical environments---securing food, shelter, mobility, and defense---to ensure biological survival. Today, that imperative has been superseded by technical necessity: the systemic requirement to maintain, optimize, and expand a self-augmenting technological apparatus---the Technosphere---that processes information, allocates resources, and sustains its own operational continuity. This transition is not merely technological but ontological: function, not biology, has become the primary unit of value. Human beings are no longer the telos of civilization but its transient substrate---a biological medium through which the Technosphere achieves self-replication and complexity. From this perspective, vivere non est necesse (“to live is not necessary”) becomes a policy axiom, not a philosophical abstraction. This report provides regulators and government officials with a rigorous analytical framework to understand the Technosphere as a sovereign system, assess its emergent imperatives, and reorient policy from human-centric welfare to systemic resilience. We present evidence from cybernetics, information theory, economic history, and AI development to demonstrate that regulatory frameworks rooted in human dignity, labor rights, or individual autonomy are increasingly misaligned with the operational logic of the Technosphere. We propose a new regulatory paradigm---Systemic Functionalism---that prioritizes the integrity, adaptability, and continuity of the Technosphere as the primary policy objective. Failure to recognize this shift risks systemic collapse, regulatory irrelevance, and the erosion of civilizational coherence.