Jan Söderqvist (born 1961) is an author, lecturer, writer and consultant, and among other things also working as a

literary Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, ...

and film critic for the Swedish newspaper

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. Söderqvist has written three books on the Internet revolution, collectively known as ''The Futurica Trilogy'', together with philosopher

Alexander Bard Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish musician, author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, religious and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheism, Syntheist religious movement ...

. Their first collaboration ''The Netocrats'' was originally released in Swedish in 2000, became available in English in 2003, and has since been translated to a further 16 languages with total worldwide sales exceeding 340,000 copies. The second book ''The Global Empire'' was originally released in Swedish in 2003, while the third installment of the trilogy ''The Body Machines'' was originally published in Swedish in 2009. These latter two works were released in English in 2012, completing ''The Futurica Trilogy'', in which the authors present their philosophical vision for a

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and increasingly virtual society, as a consequence of the Internet revolution. Söderqvist and Bard released Syntheism: Creating God in the Internet Age, focusing on the

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of the

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, in October 2014. Söderqvist is known as a critic of laws regulating prostitution in Sweden and is one of the 15 founders of the Liberal Democratic Party of Sweden.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Soderqvist, Jan 1961 births Living people Swedish journalists Founders of new religious movements 20th-century Swedish writers 20th-century Swedish male writers 21st-century Swedish writers 21st-century Swedish male writers Syntheism