Thinking Trends
Emerging technologies combined with the changing dynamics of the global economy and political landscape will contribute to creating a new civilisation. Whether it is biotechnology, nanotechnology or neuroeconomics, the field of human knowledge is fast expanding and the traditional lines that separated the arts, the hard and social sciences are constantly being eroded.
This new and emerging trend is bringing thinkers together from different disciplines that were for a long time separated due to the limitations of applying the scientific method in the social sciences, and the increasing specialisation and complexity of different fields.
This integration of scholarship has driven us to revaluate much of what we have classically understood in all fields of learning. In the field of economics, the economist Murak Lundin described economics as being in “the same position as quantum mechanics was in the 20's.”
Research is being conducted into an economic theory of everything, analysing the economics behind technological revolutions such that nations are able to foresee waves of change, and further create those waves of socio-economic change.
Consequently strategists have to tackle complex questions about the future such as whether economic globalisation will translate into a true global community. Many anticipate that this century will witness the merging of the natural world and human civilisation into a ubiquitous DNA as the building blocks of life become the model for human made systems and machines, everything from the global economy to manufacturing processes.