Bryan Walsh of Axios writes the following:
The global future is looking dark and stormy. A new 20-year-forecast for the world: increasingly fragmented and turbulent.
The big picture: A major report put out this week by the National Intelligence Council reflects a present rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic. How the next two decades will unfold depends largely on whether new technologies will ultimately unite us — or continue to divide us.
Driving the news: Many, if not most, of those trends identified in the new report from the U.S. government are trending negative.
"Shared global challenges — including climate change, disease, financial crises, and technology disruptions — are likely to manifest more frequently and intensely in almost every region and country," the report's authors write.
They predict that those intensifying challenges will collide with a geopolitical structure that will become increasingly fragmented and fragile, as the U.S. competes with China for global leadership while citizens of both democracies and autocracies grow more dissatisfied with their leaders. > Read More
