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This is how civilization advances; demolishing stated practices, diluting celebrated beliefs, erasing time tested ideas, overriding accepted methods and what not; at the end of the day what we do becomes so outdated that the present generation feels inept about us. Such will be the level of changes when there is a fundamental shift.
Be it politics, society, trade, migration, jobs, war, vehicles or in the medical field all waiting to get a face lift, that will not be an extension but a fundamental change. With these changes we are bound to shed many practices and embrace newer ways. But when these changes are not democratized there is every chance that can create great chaos before settling down.
Many of these are going through a transition, some are in the process while others have already shown signs of massive changes.
In a jist; the politics of society affects the migration and the jobs, wherein trade keeps a tab on the evolution of how the world will align, but it may cause war in the new world order.
Politics swings between left, right or center; sometimes stagnating on one side over a period of time, threatening others’ very right to existence. Contemporary data shows many nations have extreme ideologies or the native pride that are getting prominent day by day. The rigidity of a cause can be reasons to explode into confrontations, if not allowed to balance out the expressions of others view points. Politics have always had a sweeping effect on society.
Society is becoming more conservative and losing the charm of togetherness. More are becoming individuals or rather smaller groups because of the lack of trust. Those in groups are making it harder by not allowing anyone to jell together and promoting their own ideas. Isolation of the society disturbs one of the greatest tools for integration, which is nothing but trade.
Trade is going through a tumultuous time; rules re-written, supply chains affected some with confusion without following any principles of international relations. Sometimes the changes are forcefully dividing the world, creating newer alignments and formation of unimaginable allies. Such changes in trade can even end up in affecting movement of people across boundaries.
Migration has been violently getting bad remarks because of mass movements between nations. Those who migrate certainly will do their hard work to survive in an alien land, however the aborigines naturally will never feel the need to do hard work. This fact is dividing the migrating population amongst the natives, creating violent objections sometimes getting political support. Of course the nations from which people are migrating have many bad reasons which the good nations have to share, creating disgruntlement. However, those who migrate have more responsibilities to keep than the natives, which sometimes goes overboard creating chaos. Jobs are one of the reasons many are opposing migration.
Jobs are getting a massive shift because of technological advancement affecting conventional work. The retro sectors like Information technology, research, art and many more are getting jolted by Artificial Intelligence. This has just started and many conventional jobs are yet to face the effect of its competency. For the first time in history a single invention is collectively affecting most of the jobs we know. When many conventional factors are getting affected will humans engage in the oldest form of attrition, waging war.
War as we know normally happens over a longer period, with massive destruction of men and materials, win or loss , objectives achieved, territories re-defined etc. However many of the recent wars have not achieved any of these, more over most wars got over within a few days, without even a single soldier on the ground and with automation in technology driving the machines. This is a fundamental shift from all the conflicts we know. With such automation we see even autonomous vehicles getting into prominence.
Vehicles were the one invention that defined how humans got together in many ways. From the first Model-T car a century ago powered by fossil fuels is making a big transition to battery and eventual self driving.
If the previous century was a preparation for technological advancements we now witness its transformation by heaps and bounds.
With such changes in many facets of life we need a different approach to live. The new world order with such contemporaneous transitions may happen with a greater pain and vigor, like the one seen when the world evolved after World War II.
We may forgo many bygone achievements, experience nostalgia and have stories for our grandchildren. Hitherto, will the focus be on two to zero that ends in twenty eight.
If this is not the end of an epoch will it be the beginning of something far greater?
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