PART ONE

THE PAST CANNOT CONTINUE

THE FUTURE WILL PUNISH CATEGORICAL THINKING BUT reward full-spectrum thinking.

The future will be a global scramble that will be very difficult to categorize. You will need a full-spectrum mindset to have any hint of what is going on. The next decade will see staggering shifts like the increasingly visible rich-poor and asset gap, cyber warfare and cybercrime, and global climate disruption.

The scramble will be fraught with toxic misinformation (not necessarily intentional), disinformation (intentional), and distrust. In this future, it will be very dangerous to force fit new threats or new opportunities into old categories of thought. Fortunately, new spectrums of thought will become possible in new ways over ...

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