How to Think About the Future at Large Scales

If you want to think about the future at large scales, then you need to be studying past trends on very large scales. So in the case of human history, you need to look for big trends. Well, there are quite a few big trends you can find. One of them is our technological creativity. But another one is our increasing interconnectivity. And that has increased rapidly during my lifetime. We are the first species in 4 billion years that has become so powerful collectively that we will change the planet.