“What Are Future Society’s Biggest Challenges?”
Predicting the future remains a tricky business. Yet based on current observations, business advisers Andrew Winston ventures out to offer his view on where global society may be heading this decade in The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch. According to Winston, the most defining social issues include rapid urbanization, a growing ageing population, and technology shifts that will leave no aspect of people’s daily lives untouched.
In The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, Guy Standing sheds light on a frequently overlooked aspect of globalization: the creation of a new underclass of migrant short-term workers. Finding ways to integrate this new class into mainstream society will be important to maintaining social peace in the future, he writes.
Rising sea levels are an inevitable result of the climate crisis, drowning coastal cities, displacing hundreds of millions of people and causing trillions of dollars in damage. Journalist Jeff Goodell traveled widely to understand this unfolding catastrophe and to find out what it will mean for coastal residents around the world.
Human design will become the new driver of evolution and life, argues historian Yuval Harari in a stunning talk. To avoid grim possibilities, data need regulation – and not by politicians, but by scientists, poets, thinkers and lawyers.
