Category: The World We Live In
Zooming in on Tomorrow
Virtual companions, social filtering, truly global, deep roots, down to earth and the death of the phone call. The impact of Zoomers on tomorrow’s world.
China Zoomers …Tomorrow Today
If cultural shifts used to happen in London, New York or San Francisco, it has moved East to be led by the youth of Shanghai and Beijing.
Afghanistan, graveyard of accountability
Kabul falls in days. The leader flees. The world shrugs. No-one felt locally accountable enough to defend what was built.
Power without personal accountability ultimately leads to the illusion of a democratic state.
With great power comes …no responsibility.
The end of implicit trust
Intellectual authorities lost our implicit trust.
Contrary to what is often peddled, this is not primarily due to social media, internet, conspiracy theories or fake news, but to the failure of the authorities themselves, to live-up to and live-by the expectations they created.
