2040 World Taufiq Rahim

While shifting geopolitical tides point to rising challenges, step changes in technology are opening the door to unprecedented opportunity. How should we prepare for the coming moment of divergent acceleration?    

Today the world is neatly divided into a collection of nation states. With the shifting tectonics between East & West and the rise of Middle Earth, will we witness a new era of sovereignty and an age of empires & city-states?

Four billion people – half the global population - reside between the East and West. Perhaps no greater shift will affect our changing world more than the rise of the rest. The rise of Middle Earth. Are you ready?

The rules-based order belongs to the United States of America. It is the rule maker and the rule breaker. How should individuals, institutions and countries be playing for success? 

There appears to be no greater power in the world than the Almighty American Dollar. No coin or currency has ever had such widespread use in human history. How dominant is it? And will it last? 

There is the United States of America and there is the American empire. A sprawling apparatus is responsible for securing both. What is the American War Machine and what does it mean for the the world – and you?