Foresight for a Dawning Decade: The Heady Reality of AI's 'Chapter 2'

One decade passes away, another decade comes – and it makes people think. For starters, we think about what to call the decade about to end: the "twenty-teens", the "twenty-tens"? Awkward to refer to, it may prove harder to classify. The 1920s were "Roaring," but how do you categorize a decade rife with such stark contrasts: Obama and Trump, globalism and nationalism, free trade and trade wars, prosperity and income inequality, recession (at the start) and long bull market, world peace (generally) and "permanent wars." The present is too much with us to gain perspective on what, if anything in particular, this decade will come to mean – other than the mishmash of counter-trends it appears to have been.