What are the stories set to shape 2024? From the biggest election year in history, to how to control AI and even taxis that fly, The Economist offers its annual look at the world ahead.
00:00 - The World Ahead 2024
00:33 - Vital votes
03:34 - Taxis take off
07:10 - AI rules
10:19 - Industry cleans up?
13:48 - BRICS build
Read more on The World Ahead 2024: https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead-2024
Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2024: https://econ.st/3ROGB69
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation: https://econ.st/3GNsYOD
Taiwan’s presidential election will be a three-way race after all: https://econ.st/41ukOnz
China is watching closely who will be Taiwan’s next president: https://econ.st/4apC55B
Decarbonisation of industrial activities is beginning: https://econ.st/41C8D8n
The BRICS are expanding: https://econ.st/3RPV16j
A global agency to oversee AI is a tall order: https://econ.st/3v7PgrP
China approves the world’s first flying taxi: https://econ.st/3TwhxlW
The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how: https://econ.st/3GQB2hu
Flying taxis could soon be a booming business: https://econ.st/41ulb1r
The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions: https://econ.st/48aEorO
A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third: https://econ.st/3v6zjSB
,News,News & Politics,QG5WQJXB9vU,UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, Politics,Society, channel_UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, video_QG5WQJXB9vU,The country’s civil war never ended—it became a fragile stalemate that fell out of the news. A surprise rebel advance (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/11/30/syrian-rebels-sweep-into-aleppo-in-an-embarrassing-rout-for-bashar-al-assad?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) reveals how the war’s international players are busy facing their own challenges. Our correspondent found it so difficult to disappear from the internet that she gave up (https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/11/08/why-i-gave-up-trying-to-delete-myself-from-the-internet?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (10:30). And who were the stockmarket winners (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/11/22/which-shares-have-done-best-from-the-trump-trade?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) as “Trump trades” fired up again (16:54)?
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,News,News & Politics,YC-BK02LzKM,UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, Politics,Society, channel_UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, video_YC-BK02LzKM,In an interview with Javier Milei (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/11/28/javier-milei-my-contempt-for-the-state-is-infinite?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners), our correspondent probes how far the “anarcho-capitalist” president plans to push his promise to slash spending and reform the state. Can seaweed (https://www.economist.com/business/2024/11/28/could-seaweed-replace-plastic-packaging?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) and other fibrous packaging replace plastic (11:51)? And remembering Celeste Caeiro (https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/11/28/celeste-caeiros-small-gesture-named-a-revolution?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners), who named the carnation revolution in Portugal in 1974 (18:20).
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,News,News & Politics,i5MIy_3vplE,UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, Politics,Society, channel_UC0p5jTq6Xx_DosDFxVXnWaQ, video_i5MIy_3vplE,Donald Trump (https://www.economist.com/topics/united-states?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) had been facing a swathe of lawsuits this year. Now he has won a second term in office, the cases against him are falling away. Why wellness trends may be contributing to iodine deficiency (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/11/06/as-wellness-trends-take-off-iodine-deficiency-makes-a-quiet-comeback?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (8:02). And the secrets of elevator etiquette (https://www.economist.com/business/2024/11/21/how-to-behave-in-lifts-an-office-guide?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) (13:58).
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,1,Why are two old, unpopular men the main candidates for the world’s most demanding job? It’s the question John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, gets asked the most. And the answer lies in the peculiar politics of the baby boomers.
Since 1992, every American president bar one has been a white man born in the 1940s. That run looks likely to span 36 years - not far off the age of the median American. This cohort was born with aces in their pockets. Their parents defeated Nazism and won the cold war. They hit the jobs market at an unmatched period of wealth creation. They have benefitted from giant leaps in technology, and in racial and gender equality.
And yet, their last act in politics sees the two main parties accusing each other of wrecking American democracy. As the boomers near the end of their political journey, John Prideaux sets out to make sense of their inheritance and their legacy.
Launching July 2024.
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,1,What are the stories set to shape 2024? From the biggest election year in history, to how to control AI and even taxis that fly, The Economist offers its annual look at the world ahead.
00:00 - The World Ahead 2024
00:33 - Vital votes
03:34 - Taxis take off
07:10 - AI rules
10:19 - Industry cleans up?
13:48 - BRICS build
Read more on The World Ahead 2024: https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead-2024
Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2024: https://econ.st/3ROGB69
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3QAawvI
Europe, a laggard in AI, seizes the lead in its regulation: https://econ.st/3GNsYOD
Taiwan’s presidential election will be a three-way race after all: https://econ.st/41ukOnz
China is watching closely who will be Taiwan’s next president: https://econ.st/4apC55B
Decarbonisation of industrial activities is beginning: https://econ.st/41C8D8n
The BRICS are expanding: https://econ.st/3RPV16j
A global agency to oversee AI is a tall order: https://econ.st/3v7PgrP
China approves the world’s first flying taxi: https://econ.st/3TwhxlW
The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how: https://econ.st/3GQB2hu
Flying taxis could soon be a booming business: https://econ.st/41ulb1r
The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions: https://econ.st/48aEorO
A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third: https://econ.st/3v6zjSB
