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世界未来发展的方向 /html67586.html This inspired thinking shared with you by IBM, let’s build a smarter planet. The future, as we know it, is very unpredictable. The best minds in the best institutions generally get it wrong. This is in technology. This is in the area of politics, where pundits, the CIA, MI6 always get it wrong. And it’s clearly in the area of finance. With institutions established to think about the future, the IMF, the BIS, the Financial Stability Forum, couldn’t see what was coming. Over 20,000 economists whose job it is, competitive entry to get there, couldn’t see what was happening. Globalization is getting more complex. And this change is getting more rapid. The future will be more unpredictable. Urbanization, integration, coming together, leads to a new renaissance. It did this a thousand years ago. The last 40 years have been extraordinary times. Life expectancy has gone up by about 25 years. It took from the stone age to achieve that. Income has gone up for a majority of the world’s populations, despite the population going up by about two billion people over this period. And illiteracy has gone down, from a half to about a quarter of the people on earth. A huge opportunity, unleashing of new potential for innovation, for development. But there is an underbelly. There are two Achilles’ heels of globalization. There is the Achilles’ heel of growing inequality. Those that are left out, those that feel angry, those that are not participating. Globalization has not been inclusive. The second Achilles’ heel is complexity. A growing fragility, a growing brittleness. What happens in one place very quickly affects everything else. This is a systemic risk, systemic shock. We’ve seen it to the financial crisis. We’ve seen it in the pandemic flu. It will become virulent and it’s something we have to build resilience against. A lot of this is driven by what’s happening in technology. There have been huge leaps. There will be a million-fold improveme