Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. September 11, 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and -- most of all -- COVID-19. Each was an asymmetrical threat, set in motion by something seemingly small, and different from anything the world had experienced before. Fareed Zakaria foresees the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. In ten 'lessons', he writes about the acceleration of natural and biological risks, the obsolescence of the old political categories of right and left, the rise of 'digital life', the future of globalization and an emerging world order split between the United States and China. He invites us to think about how we are social animals with community embedded in our nature, and, above all, the degree to which, as his conclusion tells us, 'nothing is written' -- the future is truly in our own hands.
