/: Megapromjena

Megachange What will the world look like in 2050? What will the world look like in 2050? What will be the effects of the demographic changes taking place around the world? What scientific and technological discoveries will be the most important? What will wars look like in the future? The book by former and current journalists of the well-known magazine The Economist Megachange deals with comprehensive trends that are transforming the world faster than ever before in human history. This extremely interesting work reveals and explains the most important forces that will affect our lives in the coming decades, from globalization and new technologies to the development of the political and health system to climate change management. In 2050, there will be 9 billion people in the world - compared to 7 billion today - and this number will continue to grow. The population over the age of 65 will at least double, and in 2050 Asia could account for more than half of the world's economy. Besides, by then we should already know if we are alone in the universe. What other mega-changes can we expect – and what will be their impact? The conclusions presented in this acclaimed interdisciplinary work on what the world will look like in 2050 are often surprising, especially because they are imbued with optimism. The book is divided into 4 parts (People and Relationships, Heaven and Earth, Economy and Business, Knowledge and Progress) and in 20 interesting chapters it covers numerous topics, from health and economy to the future of religion to space research. One of the two goals of this book is to identify and explore major trends that are transforming the world, from its health to its wealth. The idea is to clear up the usual confusion, topic by topic. What is revealed in its refreshing clarity is the bigger picture, an aerial view. The second goal is a look into the future and how these events could shape the world by 2050. It is, in fact, absurdly ambitious. (...) How can anyone know what the future holds? It's hard enough to predict what the weather will be like tomorrow, let alone 40 years in advance. Until then, the world will witness many flocks of "black swans", as Nassim Taleb calls unpredictable events, writing about randomness. (…) Nevertheless, some important aspects of the coming decades can be predicted with a fairly high degree of confidence. Let's take demography for example: it's not exactly destiny, but it's close enough and an excellent starting point for thinking about the future. Indeed, this is where this book begins, with John Parker's masterful survey of population trends. These trends touch on many other topics that we deal with on the following pages. Twenty chapters, each authored by an Economist journalist or a member of their extended family, cover a wide range of topics grouped into four broad categories: people, planet, economy and knowledge. The theme of the mega-change is not only their consideration, but also many shared ideas about the future (including a humble acknowledgment of the unreliability of forecasts).