2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

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✨Book Review✨
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
by Mauro Guillén
(releasing 8.25)

By 2030:
- There will be more grandparents than grandchildren
- The middle-class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Europe combined
- The global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first time in modern history
- There will be more global wealth owned by women than men
- There will be more robots than workers
- There will be more computers than human brains
- There will be more currencies than countries

As a professor at the Wharton School, Mauro Guillén worries "not only about the future state of business but also about how workers and consumers might be affected by the avalanche of change coming our way." In 2030, he explains how several trends like wealth disparity (The U.S. federal poverty line in 2019 was $28,100 for a family of four, while, according to the UK House of Commons Library two-thirds of the world's wealth will be owned by the richest 1 percent in 2030), Africa's baby boom and industrial revolution, senior citizens postponing retirement, and the end of modern banking will converge into a single tipping point in 2030.

Full of fascinating (and often frightening) statistics, 2030 supports the facts that many of the "old rules" about our culture, economy, and technology (babies outnumbering retirees, printed money as legal tender, middle class attainability, and paths to financial security) are in the process of a seismic shift. I found the information about birth rate trends in different countries especially fascinating and the entire book was extremely thought provoking. The final copy of this book will also include a chapter on the implications of COVID-19 on these trends.