As a venture-capital investor, I see a particularly strong role for a new kind of impact investing. I foresee a venture ecosystem emerging that views the creation of humanistic service-sector jobs as a good in and of itself. It will steer money into human-focused service projects that can scale up and hire large numbers of people: lactation

These countries combine highly educated populations; a size that allows for coherence; and successful positions in the global division of labour. They are sufficiently connected to the mainstream to benefit from its knowledge and sufficiently on the edge to think freely and experiment.