21st Century Trends

1. Politics: Everyone turns to politics. From celebrities to sports stars, everyone aspires to join politics.
2. Politics get cleaner.
3. Industry: Business and entrepreneurship get more popular. Popularity of business soars.
4. The marriage of materialism and meditation: People are no longer afraid of stress, but learn to cope with the stress associated with materialism.
5. Innovation and the Arts: People rekindle their childhood love for science, technology and literature.
6. Nationalism rises.
7. Big science, big tech go private: The race to space has already gone private. Big science (genomics, brain science, nuclear and particle physics), big tech (AI, nanotech).
8. Mathematics marvels: From big data we move on to applied mathematics and big data. New quantitative sciences emerge. Machine learning models become mathematical models and equations.
9. Leaders turn to Economics.
10. Armed forces power, influence increases.
11. Spiritual power: Spiritual power in the hands of many.
12. The joy of Christianity: Christian beliefs spread across the world.
13. The brilliant class: The emergence of ultra all round achievers.
14. Academia: Polymath professors.
15. New kinds of families (to emerge).
16. Academia: Focus on research.
17. Industry: The dream of ownership of conglomerates.
18. Education: Students learn critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills. Learn how to learn.
19. Self help industry gets bigger. The perception of IQ changes. IQ is no longer seen as static.
20. Realization deepens. People understand with heart, express from heart.
21. Women empowerment.
22. Public finance gets bigger.
23. Entertainment industry: Everyone wishes to get to the entertainment industry.
24. Competition intensifies: in the areas of sports, intellectual competitions.
25. Engineering becomes a more popular choice.
26. Multiple positions for the same person: Due to increased productivity, globalization.
27. Government: Leaders become more work-oriented. Government gets more productive.
28. Government compensation gets bigger. Has long-term consequences. Political, Government employment as career.
29. Army input to Government.
30. The return of God: People turn to religions after about half a century of atheism.
31. Social media for societal transformation.
32. Climate change: Climate change becomes a hot topic. Climate activists get vocal.
33. Politics: Activism (political, societal causes) get bigger.
34. Religious institutions get more powerful.
35. Healthcare: Doctors turn to research and innovation.
36. Academia: Textbook and Nonfiction writing become popular.
37. Expertise: After a century of narrow expertise, experts emerge with not only broad knowledge but wide expertise.
38. Government decentralization.
39. Improvement of law and order situation.
40. Newspaper, magazine readership increases (in the West).
41. Nations strive towards self sufficiency.
42. East: Religious prohibition gets flexible.

21st Century Trends Categorized

Government and Politics

1. Politics: Everyone turns to politics. From celebrities to sports stars, everyone aspires to join politics.
2. Politics get cleaner.
3. Leaders turn to Economics
4. Public finance gets bigger.
5. Improvement of law and order situation.
6. Climate change: Climate change becomes a hot topic. Climate activists get vocal.
7. Government compensation gets bigger. Has long-term consequences. Political, Government employment as career.
8. Politics: Activism (political, societal causes) get bigger.
9. Government decentralization.
10. Army input to Government.
11. Armed forces power, influence increases.
12. Government: Leaders become more work-oriented. Government gets more productive.
13. Newspaper, magazine readership increases (in the West).
14. Women empowerment.

Business and Industry

1. Big science, big tech go private: The race to space has already gone private. Big science (genomics, brain science, nuclear and particle physics), big tech (AI, nanotech).
2. Industry: Business and entrepreneurship get more popular. Popularity of business soars.
3. Industry: The dream of ownership of conglomerates.
4. Engineering becomes a more popular choice.
5. Entertainment industry: Everyone wishes to get to the entertainment industry.

Academia

1. Academia: Polymath professors.
2. Academia: Focus on research.
3. Academia: Textbook and Nonfiction writing become popular.

Science, Technology and the Arts:

1. Mathematics marvels: From big data to applied mathematics and big data. New quantitative sciences emerge. Machine learning models become mathematical models and equations.
2. Innovation and the Arts: People rekindle their childhood love for science and literature.

Expertise:

1. Expertise: After a century of narrow expertise, experts emerge with not only broad knowledge but wide expertise.
2. The brilliant class: The emergence of ultra all round achievers.
3. Competition intensifies: in the areas of sports, intellectual competitions.
4. Multiple positions for the same person: Due to increased productivity, globalization.

Nations:

1. Nationalism rises.
2. Nations strive towards self sufficiency.

Education:

1. Education: Students learn critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills. Learn how to learn.
2. Self help industry gets bigger. The perception of IQ change: IQ is no longer seen as static.
3. Realization deepens. People understand with heart, express from heart.

Religion:

1. The joy of Christianity: Christian beliefs spread across the world.
2. The return of God: People turn to religions after about half a century of atheism.
3. Spiritual power: Spiritual power in the hands of many.
4. Religious institutions get more powerful.
5. East: Religious prohibition gets flexible.

Healthcare

1. Healthcare: Doctors turn to research and innovation.

People and Living:

1. The marriage of materialism and meditation: People are no longer afraid of stress, but learn to cope with the stress associated with materialism.
2. New kinds of families (to emerge).