'Everything's changing so fast,' she said. 'Isn't it stunning to wake up every morning and feel that the whole world's brand-new again, a present waiting for you to unwrap it?'
That's the first paragraph of the book A Summer in the Twenties. In ten years the whole world will indeed feel brand-new again, as we leave the Industrial Age behind and are truly in the Internet or Information Age of the 21st Century.
But first, the second decade of the 21st Century. From 2010 to 2020 will be a gut wrenching hard fought and iffy decade as the Industrial Age collapses without plan or order, and the new Internet Age takes over in a messy chaotic and not-altogether-perfect way.
And we don't know how it will turn out for every nation, state, city, business and family. Some countries (the U.S. maybe?) could screw it up. To rework a great line from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the first author of the Industrial Age and symbol of the 1920s, "Inevitable (the Internet Age) becomes evitable (each country's success is iffy)." Will America remain the number one country in the world, or fall in its ranking? What's your opinion?