![]() ![]() ![]() Two trends, both the product of modern technology, are to blame for this. Since the first tribe that chopped trees for firewood, humans have had an impact on the environment, but never fast enough or at a large enough scale to cause permanent damage or affect all other humans-until now. What’s new is the pace and scale of change. ![]() These include increasing inequality, the rise of populism, growing dissatisfaction with democracy and capitalism, climate change, and balancing individual rights and social cohesion. Humanity faces a number of huge challenges that must be addressed over the next generation. This is only bound to increase as these trends pick up pace. For many people, the contrast between our local, analog lives and our global, digital lives is already the source of no small amount of cognitive dissonance.
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