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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: People and relationships
Chapter 1: Not quite destiny
Comte and Malthus
Falling fertility
Cashing the demographic dividend
Young, middle-aged and old
Chapter 2: The health of nations
Out with the old
In with the new
I am 70, older and wider
Medicine on the march
Chapter 3: Women’s world
Well-schooled for a better future
Equal in law, not money
Future perfect and imperfect
Emerged and emerging
Chapter 4: Friends indeed
Genesis and evolution
Social graph-iti
Collaboration and its consequences
Social workers and players
Towards a socialised state
Chapter 5: Cultural revolutions
The dragon’s share
Some like it local
Those revolutionary digits
Gatekeepers v media mayhem
The declining tower of Babel
Part 2: Heaven and earth
Chapter 6: Believe it or not
After Marx and Mao
The godly and fertile poor
The American exception
Aspects of poverty
Chapter 7: Feeling the heat
The rhetorical imperative
The fossil imperative
Doing the maths
Food for thought
Manage the risks
Radical ideas in the air
Chapter 8: The future of war: the weak become strong
Through a glass, darkly
The wars of religion
Uneven balance
War of the robots
The new nuclear threat
Chapter 9: Freedom’s ragged march
Be careful what you wish for
Marks after Marx
Blogs and lobbies
A better model
That’s the spirit
Scared – or complacent?
Chapter 10: Taming Leviathan: the state of the state
The shock of the old
The case against fiscal fatalism
Doctor, can you spare a dime?
Smarter as well as fitter
Part 3: Economy and business
Chapter 11: The age of emerging markets
Blue-skies thinking
Workers of the world
Tardy but speedy
Yuan rising
A world of services
Emerged markets
Chapter 12: Globalisation, growth and the Asian century
The roller-coaster ride
Global limits
Globalisation and growth to 2050
The Asian century
Chapter 13: The great levelling
Measuring the gap
A more equal future
A new progressive era?
Chapter 14: Schumpeter Inc
Tempestuous times
Tidal waves of change
Surfing through the storms
Chapter 15: Market momentum
The ineluctable credit cycle
Changing trends?
Momentum
Cycling into the future
Part 4: Knowledge and progress
Chapter 16: What (and where) next for science
Unravelling life
Know thyself
The outward urge
Galileo’s children
Chapter 17: Ad astra
The space race rerun
Ex astris, pecunia?
Ex astris, scientia
Chapter 18: The web of knowledge
Ancient and modern
Getting ever smarter
Evolution and revolution
The exponential future
The new order
Chapter 19: Distance is dead. Long live location
Talk is cheap
The mobile miracle
Location, location, location
Chapter 20: Of predictions and progress: more for less
What will not happen
The invisibility of good news
The affordable future
Cheaper government?
A more sustainable future
Acknowledgements
Index
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