"None of us can see the future. We don't know what 2036 will bring. We all like to tell ourselves that we can, or do, and maybe we do actually see small pieces of it coming before we catch up to them, but none of us see the whole picture. That's, at the end of the day, part of what it is to be human. Nevertheless we can't seem to help ourselves from at least trying."
"Going into the second half of the 2020s we are coming out of a time period that marked wild and tumultuous disruption, with the world changing in both big and small ways that none of us could have imagined in our wildest dreams at the start of 2020. As we enter the second half of the decade, events around the world are starting to push us in a direction that seems like it will be even more disruptive and unpredictable than the first half of the decade."
"In this issue, we are going to do what we can't help ourselves doing, we're going to try to predict the shape of the next decade. I say shape, and not just the future itself, because that is the best that human beings can actually do. These pages are filled with pieces written by some of the most influential and intelligent people that engage in this space trying to look ahead and provide something of value to you, the reader."
"Every few generations, the world seems to go through some tumultuous upheaval. A radical shift that upends the order and institutions that maintained the previous shape of the world. I think we are entering that next period now, and we've probably been standing in its doorway since 2020. Chaos and change are not solely reasons to give in to fear, or anxiety, they are also reasons to have hope and optimism."
No one can see the future or know what 2036 will bring. People may notice small pieces of what is coming, but the full picture remains unseen. Trying to predict the next decade is a human impulse. The second half of the 2020s follows a period of wild, tumultuous disruption in which the world changed in ways no one imagined at the start of 2020. Events now push toward even more disruptive and unpredictable conditions. Every few generations, upheaval radically shifts the order and institutions that shaped the previous world. Chaos and change can produce fear and anxiety, but they can also support hope and optimism.
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