Week 4

 After reading the book, I clearly see the things predicted there, which are getting pretty common now. The transition from valuing routine work to valuing creativity, social skills becoming as important as competence, treating everyone fairly, teaching not only study material but also planting crucial everyday skills in students in schools and colleges, and making work more balanced - I cannot agree more with these ideas. And they really work in most developed countries. However, the world took a bit another branch to grow.

I am a supporter of the SPOD-VUCA-BANI theory. It is about how the modern world was developing. The first stage, which ended in the 1970s is SPOD - Steady, Predictable, Ordinary, Definite. Then, the new term emerged - VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity. A huge technological revolution started, giving birth to new technologies and the Internet, the world became a bit less stable and more flexible. It is the period the book was written in. The predictions there really worked and kept making the world a better place. But now we live in a different stage, which started with the pandemic - BANI - Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible. Pandemic, global warming acceleration and unstable relationships between the countries made the world a totally unpredictable place. And since we are at the very beginning, we have no idea how to act.

This topic is huge and I can dig into it for a long time, but, cutting the long story short, the things predicted in the passage made us a bit more ready for the BANI world. All three stages can be compared to ice (stable), water (flexible but controllable), and fog (???). And in my opinion, we should carry on with the suggested reforms, but also make up new ways to handle the world.