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What will the world look like in 2050? What will be our biggest challenges and the major issues shaping our world? And what countries will have the biggest economies?
Hamish McRae is one of Europe's leading speakers on global trends in economics, business and society. He's also an economic and finance journalist and editor at The Independent.
In his new book The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future, he maps out the next thirty years - and he has a well-established reputation for predicting global trends; thirty years ago he did a similar exercise in his book The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity; and warned, among other things, of Brexit, a populist revolution in America, and a global pandemic.
