The Future is Young

Why this book

The future is now. If ever there has been a time when future has caught up with us, it must be the 2020s. Technology; learning; data analytics; public health: Development in all these and many other areas has accelerated to a point where people and societies feel anxious and unsure about what it will be like, ten or twenty years from now, Amid this fast and disorienting pace of change, many are instinctively looking to political leaders and world-renowned experts for answers. As a result, important conversations that should be going on have been conspicuous by their absence. In particular, these are conversations that should involve young people. If new paradigms are emerging that will one day govern how we live, work, learn and communicate, it is the youth that needs to be in the driver’s seat of shaping them. The new generation needs to ensure that these paradigms reflect its values and priorities, as well as its outlook on the world and how it perceives its own place in the world. Young people have boundless energy, to be human in this world. The future is young.

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