Trend Ten global shifts since the 2008 financial crisis reshaping economy, technology, geopolitics and society

Summary

The plan describes the seventeen years since the 2008 global financial crisis as a period of groping in the dark after the Great Recession. It enumerates ten landscapes of global change over that period. They begin with prolonged stagnation and a new normal, AI innovation reshaping industrial structure, a US and China economic war moving the world toward a new cold war order, and the rise of populism alongside a crisis of democracy. The list continues with deepening inequality and social conflict, an information society drifting into a post-truth era, global population growth with the onset of hundred-year lives, and an intensifying climate crisis that calls for planetary democracy. It closes with more frequent global risks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the simultaneous strengthening of individualism and tribalism.