"Megatrends" are great forces in societal development that have profound impacts on states, markets, and civil society in the now and for the years to come. They can effectively be employed as a starting point for analyzing our world. Megachange: The World in 2050 looks at these sweeping, fundamental trends that are changing the world faster than at any time in human history.
Including chapters on approximately twenty of these "megatrends," each elegantly outlined by contributors from The Economist, and rich in supporting facts and graphics, the book is a compelling read as well as a valuable research and reference tool.
Packed with important information about the forces that shape our world, Megachange is a fascinating new look to the future from the experts at The Economist.
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Megachange looks at the forces that have been driving change and where they are headed over the following decades. Its conclusions about how the world will look in 2050 are often surprising, not least in their optimism. Following an introduction, the book is divided into four parts containing 20 chapters that cover everything from health to wealth and religion to outer space.
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
The contributors
Barbara Beck is The Economist's special-reports editor.
Geoffrey Carr is The Economist's science and technology editor.
Philip Coggan is the Buttonwood columnist and capital-markets editor of The Economist. He is the author of The Economist Guide to Hedge Funds and, most recently, Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order.
Simon Cox is The Economist's Asia economics editor.
Tim Cross is a science correspondent at The Economist.
Kenneth Cukier is The Economist's data editor.
Martin Giles is The Economist's US technology correspondent.
Anthony Gottlieb is a New York-based writer. A former executive editor of The Economist, he is the author of The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance.
Robert Lane Greene is The Economist's professional-services correspondent. He also edits "Johnson", The Economist's blog on language, and is the author of You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity.
Charlotte Howard is The Economist's health-care correspondent.
Laza Kekic is director of the Economist Intelligence Unit's Country Forecasting Service.
Edward Lucas edits The Economist's international section. His most recent book is Deception, on East-West espionage.
Zanny Minton Beddoes is The Economist's economics editor.
Oliver Morton is The Economist's briefings editor and was previously energy and environment editor. His most recent book is Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet.
John Parker is The Economist's globalisation editor.
Matt Ridley is a former science and technology editor, Washington bureau chief and United States editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves.
Ludwig Siegele is The Economist's online business editor. He was previously technology editor.
Matthew Symonds is The Economist's defence and security editor.
Paul Wallace is The Economist's European economics editor. He is the author of Agequake: Riding the Demographic Rollercoaster Shaking Business, Finance and Our World.
Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist's management editor and Schumpeter columnist. He is co-author of several books and, most recently, the author of Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World – for Better and for Worse.
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 have 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 look 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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