Vivemos tempos em que padrões gerados ao longo de décadas parece estarem a ser rebentados no espaço de alguns meses.
"1. BRICS would be exciting sources of global growth...While the end of the BRICS dominance has been clear for a while (Goldman Sachs shut down its BRICS fund in 2015), any lingering faith in the idea is gone for good.2. Energy costs would remain fairly stableBack in 2020 (who would think we’d have a reason to look fondly at 2020???) pundits were predicting fairly stable, even somewhat lower, energy costs....3. Inflation? That’s so 1970’s...Under inflation, cash is king and every mistake gets magnified....4. Cyber-attacks affect other people...5. “I’m not influenced by Russian-originated disinformation”...6. Infrastructure will be there and connectivity will be ongoingIt is one of the big negatives of the digital revolution – once you’ve created digital systems, which are marvels in many ways – you are increasingly dependent on them. Digital systems also lead to complexity with the consequence that they behave in far more unpredictable ways. So what is your plan B if some vital piece of infrastructure (water, energy, transport) gets disrupted or hijacked? How will you communicate when the cell towers are down? What will you do when the power goes out for an extended period?7. Highly optimized supply chains will behave as planned...As well, how any little glitch anywhere along the complex sets of interactions that bring goods to our doorsteps can throw the whole system into disarray. The problem was already bad before the invasion; it isn’t about to get a whole lot better with disruptions of airspace and communication. ...8. Politics are politics and commerce is commerce...9. Countries that trade together don’t go to warThis is an assumption that’s been with us for an enormously long time and has been used to justify the creation of commercial connections, often following conflicts. ...10. Liberal democracy is the norm"