Five Disruptions Reweaving the Social Fabric by 2035
Cultural commentaries of five years ago pondered whether humanity hung on the verge of the “Roaring 20's” or the “Boring 20's.” The events of the half decade since speak for themselves: a global pandemic, climate crisis, and the rise of exponential technologies–to name a few. Some trends will dissipate but there are important disruptions taking place today that could reverberate to the point of permanently reshaping society over the next ten years. New norms, values, behaviors, and ideals are being born. Below is a countdown of the top five disruptions reweaving the social fabric by 2035. 5. The Population Bomb Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book, The Population Bomb , warned we were doomed to suffer a future demographic crisis. His prediction unleashed an urgent call to control the earth’s human population before resources ran scarce and we overpopulated ourselves into oblivion. Instead, the actual population bomb of the 21st century is that of a globally declining birthrate. B...
