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A very thoughfull guy, John Petersen, looks into the future and explains what our societies are facing with the current transformations onset by the evergrowing complexity in the world. Being a remarkably diverse fellow, Petersen elaborates further on the widely misunderstood impact of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls ‘The Black Swans’ and gives some other examples on the nature of the complexity mentioned before by i.e. philosopher John Key and mathematician Benoit Manderbrot, to explain why some unprecedented things are afoot. John Petersen, a futurist and the president of the Arlingtion Institute, reinforces his talk with some very interesting statistics worth our consideration, i.e. “The world population has grown more in the last 50 years than in the 4 million years that preceded it”, and the notion that within 20 India years will probably grow to become the most important country in the world… He also talks about the oil production peaks and the importance of harnessing new energy sources.

In short, a very intelligent and thoughtfull lecture on the socio-economic situation of the world today that pust things into perspective and what may be ahead of us.

Here’s the YouTube description and below it the whole playlist of the lecture:

Very thoughtful analysts and theoreticians are now suggesting that we are at the beginning of a full-scale meltdown of the world’s financial system – not just a recession. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, extraordinary investor and author of The Black Swan, and mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot now believe that this financial failure has the potential to be the most significant event since the American Revolution. Couple that with a rapid shift in the planet’s climate system, rising food prices, and a reorganization of the world’s energy regime, and one has the makings of an historical shift in the way we all live that is unlike anything anyone alive has ever considered or experienced. At the same time, extraordinary breakthroughs in science and technology promise that much of what we find familiar will soon be obsolete and give themselves up to amazing new capabilities that seemed like science fiction only a handful of years ago. We are in the beginning of an epochal shift that will ultimately produce not only a new world, but also new humans that have a new set of values and perspectives. Leading world futurist John Petersen explores not only what is happening and might happen – but also what might come out of it all.

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