This mind-opening episode summarises some of the groundbreaking analysis of the business, economic, and technological trends of today to predict what the world will look like in 2030 – and how the Coronavirus pandemic will accelerate each of these major trends.

Our guest is author of "2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything", Mauro Guillén

Some stats from the book:

Birthplace of the next industrial revolution: sub-Saharan Africa 

The reason: 500 million acres of fertile yet undeveloped agricultural land 

The size of Mexico: 500 million acres 

Percentage of the world’s wealth owned by women in 2000: 15 

Percentage of the world’s wealth owned by women in 2030: 55

If Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters: global financial crisis averted 

Worldwide, the number of people who went hungry in 2017: 821 million 

Worldwide, the number of people who will go hungry in 2030: 200 million 

Worldwide, the number of people who were obese in 2017: 650 million 

Worldwide, the number of people who will be obese in 2030: 1.1 billion 

Percentage of Americans projected to be obese in 2030: 50 

Percentage of the world’s land occupied by cities in 2030: 1.1 

Percentage of the world’s population living in cities in 2030: 60 

Percentage of worldwide carbon emissions produced by cities in 2030: 87

Percentage of world’s urban population exposed to rising sea levels in 2030: 80 

The largest middle-class consumer market today: United States and Western Europe

The largest middle-class consumer market in 2030: China 

By 2030, the number of people entering the middle class in emerging markets: 1 billion 

The number of people currently in the middle class in the United States: 223 million 

The number of people in the middle class in the United States in 2030: 209 million

More about Mauro:

http://www.mauroguillen.com