New York Times: The world as we have known it for the last 50 years is collapsing, we are entering the “age of monsters”

Donald Trump is back, artificial intelligence is maturing, the planet is still warming and the global birth rate is going…down. These are the four factors, which, according to a New York Times analysis, are leading the world to a new dark age, which the columnist of the American Media, Ezra Klein, characterizes, “age of monsters”. If we consider each of these factors in isolation, we will miss what they represent collectively: the unstable, unpredictable emergence of a different world. Much of what we’ve taken for granted over the past 50 years — from the climate to birth rates to political institutions — is crumbling, the NYT article notes, noting that, on the other hand, the technologies and movements of the next 50 years are emerging. Trump’s return Trump is eight days away from being sworn in for a second term as president of the United States and is taking office with almost no political opposition, with a Republican party weak and Democrats exhausted. Not even in 2016 […]
Source: News Beast

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