New: The intelligence community's Global Trends 2040 report says the pandemic is the most "significant, singular global disruption" since WWII, an event that is likely to profoundly impact world development for decades to come. wsj.com/articles/covid…
Among its dire predictions, the Global Trends 2040 report envisions continued fragmentation of communities where “people are likely to gravitate to information silos of people who share similar views, reinforcing beliefs and understanding of the truth.” wsj.com/articles/covid…
The pandemic is just one of numerous global challenges “without a direct human agent or perpetrator” likely to become more frequent and intense in coming decades. Others: demographic shifts, the impact of climate change, migration, and financial crises. wsj.com/articles/covid…
“During the next 20 years, the physical effects from climate change of higher temperatures, sea level rise, and extreme weather events will impact every country,” with the costs falling disproportionately on the developing world, the report says. wsj.com/articles/covid…
The report anticipates technology will continue to play an integral and expanding role in everyday life, with an accelerating pace and reach of breakthroughs so seismic they will transform society’s collective understanding of the human experience. wsj.com/articles/covid…
But AI and other technologies—such as an Internet of Things ecosystem that could top a trillion devices by 2040—may come with potentially steep, Orwellian erosions of civil liberties and a common, shared reality. wsj.com/articles/covid…
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