Future Jist 11

Your weekly curation of 4 impactful future-oriented stories.

Nov 19, 2020

🧔️The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse: I’ve previously written (albeit slightly) on the predictions of Peter Turchin and his grim outlook for Americans. The 2020s do not look like a good decade for the country. This piece serves as both a profile of the scientist that is Turchin and cliodynamics: a field that makes use of complexity theory to make inferences about a society based on its historical precedents. You may want to read his thoughts on the piece before you proceed. He didn’t seem to like certain ways in which he was portrayed. (5099 words)

🇨🇳️An Economist’s Guide to the World in 2050: Bloomberg Economics has done the math and they foresee that by 2050, China will emerge as the biggest economy in the world. The seeds are already being sown. No. They have already been sown. The real question is: Is the world ready for its enthroning? (1685 words)

🇪🇹️Ethiopia’s troubled history explains why all-out civil war is possible: Ethiopia is on the verge of civil war. As someone who had the opportunity to live in Addis Abeba for a while, (a beautiful city with beautiful people) I feel saddened that ethnic disputes have come to this. At the core of this conflict is a desire for secession by the Tigray ethnic group. Prior to these tensions, Ethiopia had seen unprecedented economic growth. This is bound to dent whatever progress it may have made. (864 words)

👩‍💻️Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography: The guys at Quanta Magazine always do a great job of detailing fundamental breakthroughs in STEM. This piece on the development of a groundbreaking paper on Indistinguishability Obfuscation is no different. It promises us a future of super-secure communication. That is until Quantum Computing really takes off. (2288 words)

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