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Navigating the future can be tricky...
The scale of change happening around us can be bewildering, and scary. This book offers clarity, and hope. There is every chance that the world in 2050 will be richer, healthier, more connected, more sustainable, more innovative, better educated, and with less inequality between rich and poor and between men and women.
Enormous challenges lie ahead, from managing climate change to feeding 9 billion people by 2050 and coping with a multitude of new security threats. In its 20 chapters that looks at everything from health to wealth and religion to outer space, Megachange confronts these issues in its exploration of the fundamental trends that are shaping the world.
Brimming with (often counter-intuitive) ideas and facts, Megachange provides fascinating insights into what the coming decades will bring.
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Contents: Introduction: meet megachange • People and relationships • Not quite destiny • The health of nations • Women’s world • Friends indeed • Cultural revolutions • Heaven and earth • Believe it or not • Feeling the heat • The future of war: the weak become strong • Freedom’s ragged march • Taming Leviathan: the state of the state • Economy and business • The age of emerging markets • Globalisation, growth and the Asian century • The great levelling • Schumpeter Inc • Market momentum • Knowledge and progress • What (and where) next for science • Ad astra • The web of knowledge • Distance is dead. Long live location • Of predictions and progress: more for less
ISBN - 9781846685859
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Pages : 320
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