Extreme personal freedom, heavy digital surveillance, and rampant economic precarity. 2. The Hyperconflict
National governments will weaken. Massive transnational corporations—specifically entertainment and insurance companies—will effectively run the world.
Attali argues that human history is governed by cycles. He notes that society moved from a "ritual order" (governed by religion) to an "imperial order" (governed by military might), and finally to the current (governed by the free market and capitalism).
A period of massive, decentralized global warfare.
