Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know by Ronald Bailey

A concise, data-driven overview of ten major worldwide shifts—demographic change and aging, improved health and longevity, rising food and material productivity, expanding education and prosperity, the spread of democracy and markets, rapid technological innovation, deeper global integration, evolving energy and resource patterns, environmental challenges and conservation, and shifting security dynamics—argues that human ingenuity, markets and institutions have produced notable progress while noting persistent risks that call for pragmatic, evidence-based policies.