Megachange: The World in 2050

Introduction: meet megachange xi
Daniel Franklin

Part 1 People and relationships 1

1 Not quite destiny 3
John Parker

2 The health of nations 21
Charlotte Howard

3 Women’s world 36
Barbara Beck

4 Friends indeed 51
Martin Giles

5 Cultural revolutions 63
Robert Lane Greene

Part 2 Heaven and earth 77

6 Believe it or not 79
Anthony Gottlieb

7 Feeling the heat 92
Oliver Morton

8 The future of war: the weak become strong 111
Matthew Symonds

9 Freedom’s ragged march 126
Edward Lucas

10 Taming Leviathan: the state of the state 138
Paul Wallace

Part 3 Economy and business 151

11 The age of emerging markets 153
Simon Cox

12 Globalisation, growth and the Asian century 170
Laza Kekic

13 The great levelling 181
Zanny Minton Beddoes

14 Schumpeter Inc 193
Adrian Wooldridge

15 Market momentum 203
Philip Coggan

Part 4 Knowledge and progress 217

16 What (and where) next for science 219
Geoffrey Carr

17 Ad astra 229
Tim Cross

18 The web of knowledge 241
Kenneth Cukier

19 Distance is dead. Long live location 254
Ludwig Siegele

20 Of predictions and progress: more for less 264
Matt Ridley

Acknowledgements 276

Index 277