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I propose that we replace the primacy of the linear history of nations with a circulatory, interactive and transformative history.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Dense, efficient, intelligently organized cities are the future of the human race, and they provide the only remotely plausible template for permanently housing large populations.
David Owen • The Conundrum
Goethe Institute
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
beneficial role of freer markets, more open societies, and better governance in spurring economic growth.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
If liberalism, nationalism, Islam, or some novel creed wishes to shape the world of the year 2050, it will need not only to make sense of artificial intelligence, Big Data algorithms, and bioengineering but also to incorporate them into a new and meaningful narrative.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
great power competition.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The big challenge for most societies will be how to absorb and accommodate the new modernity while still embracing the nourishing aspects of our traditional value systems.
Klaus Schwab • The Fourth Industrial Revolution
even for the brightest designers we have, it will be their ability to lead, persuade and collaborate with those in power, and their fellow citizens, that will guide to us making a better world.