The world is rapidly changing, but in ways that many of us fail to understand. For many, things are bad. For many, things are getting better. So we need to understand how the world can both be bad and getting better at the same time, and what this means for our understanding of social change and development.

In the early 2020s we live in a world that is in transition, but to an end point that is not known. How this transition plays out will shape all of our lives, for the rest of the century