21st Century Trends
- Politics: Everyone turns to politics. From celebrities to sports stars, everyone aspires to join politics.
- Politics get cleaner.
- Industry: Business and entrepreneurship get more popular. Popularity of business soars.
- The marriage of materialism and meditation: People are no longer afraid of stress, but learn to cope with the stress associated with materialism.
- Innovation and the Arts: People rekindle their childhood love for science, technology and literature.
- Nationalism rises.
- 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).
- 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.
- Leaders turn to Economics.
- Armed forces power, influence increases.
- Spiritual power: Spiritual power in the hands of many.
- The joy of Christianity: Christian beliefs spread across the world.
- The brilliant class: The emergence of ultra all round achievers.
- Academia: Polymath professors.
- New kinds of families (to emerge).
- Academia: Focus on research.
- Industry: The dream of ownership of conglomerates.
- Education: Students learn critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills. Learn how to learn.
- Self help industry gets bigger. The perception of IQ changes. IQ is no longer seen as static.
- Realization deepens. People understand with heart, express from heart.
- Women empowerment.
- Public finance gets bigger.
- Entertainment industry: Everyone wishes to get to the entertainment industry.
- Competition intensifies: in the areas of sports, intellectual competitions.
- Engineering becomes a more popular choice.
- Multiple positions for the same person: Due to increased productivity, globalization.
- Government: Leaders become more work-oriented. Government gets more productive.
- Government compensation gets bigger. Has long-term consequences. Political, Government employment as career.
- Army input to Government.
- The return of God: People turn to religions after about half a century of atheism.
- Social media for societal transformation.
- Climate change: Climate change becomes a hot topic. Climate activists get vocal.
- Politics: Activism (political, societal causes) get bigger.
- Religious institutions get more powerful.
- Healthcare: Doctors turn to research and innovation.
- Academia: Textbook and Nonfiction writing become popular.
- Expertise: After a century of narrow expertise, experts emerge with not only broad knowledge but wide expertise.
- Government decentralization.
- Improvement of law and order situation.
- Newspaper, magazine readership increases (in the West).
- Nations strive towards self sufficiency.
- East: Religious prohibition gets flexible.
21st Century Trends Categorized
Government and Politics
- Politics: Everyone turns to politics. From celebrities to sports stars, everyone aspires to join politics.
- Politics get cleaner.
- Leaders turn to Economics
- Public finance gets bigger.
- Improvement of law and order situation.
- Climate change: Climate change becomes a hot topic. Climate activists get vocal.
- Government compensation gets bigger. Has long-term consequences. Political, Government employment as career.
- Politics: Activism (political, societal causes) get bigger.
- Government decentralization.
- Army input to Government.
- Armed forces power, influence increases.
- Government: Leaders become more work-oriented. Government gets more productive.
- Newspaper, magazine readership increases (in the West).
- Women empowerment.
Business and Industry
- 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).
- Industry: Business and entrepreneurship get more popular. Popularity of business soars.
- Industry: The dream of ownership of conglomerates.
- Engineering becomes a more popular choice.
- Entertainment industry: Everyone wishes to get to the entertainment industry.
Academia
- Academia: Polymath professors.
- Academia: Focus on research.
- Academia: Textbook and Nonfiction writing become popular.
Science, Technology and the Arts:
- Mathematics marvels: From big data to applied mathematics and big data. New quantitative sciences emerge. Machine learning models become mathematical models and equations.
- Innovation and the Arts: People rekindle their childhood love for science and literature.
Expertise:
- Expertise: After a century of narrow expertise, experts emerge with not only broad knowledge but wide expertise.
- The brilliant class: The emergence of ultra all round achievers.
- Competition intensifies: in the areas of sports, intellectual competitions.
- Multiple positions for the same person: Due to increased productivity, globalization.
Nations:
- Nationalism rises.
- Nations strive towards self sufficiency.
Education:
- Education: Students learn critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills. Learn how to learn.
- Self help industry gets bigger. The perception of IQ change: IQ is no longer seen as static.
- Realization deepens. People understand with heart, express from heart.
Religion:
- The joy of Christianity: Christian beliefs spread across the world.
- The return of God: People turn to religions after about half a century of atheism.
- Spiritual power: Spiritual power in the hands of many.
- Religious institutions get more powerful.
- East: Religious prohibition gets flexible.
Healthcare
- Healthcare: Doctors turn to research and innovation.
People and Living:
- The marriage of materialism and meditation: People are no longer afraid of stress, but learn to cope with the stress associated with materialism.
- New kinds of families (to emerge).