Klein: ‘Now Is the Time of Monsters’

Good summary of four macro issues that will affect our lives for years to come. Makes for depressing reading but cannot be ignored.

Donald Trump is returning, artificial intelligence is maturing, the planet is warming, and the global fertility rate is collapsing.

To look at any of these stories in isolation is to miss what they collectively represent: the unsteady, unpredictable emergence of a different world. Much that we took for granted over the last 50 years — from the climate to birthrates to political institutions — is breaking down; movements and technologies that seek to upend the next 50 years are breaking through….

Source: ‘Now Is the Time of Monsters’