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AI, China’s impact on global events, upcoming elections, major developments in Israel, and many more events are shaping the world in 2024. I would like to provide a brief overview of what I consider “six mega-trends” for the upcoming year, which carry important prophetic significance.

As the sun begins to set on an America whose dollar set the standard and whose capacity for manufacturing was unchallenged, a new superpower is emerging and it is China.

Substantial and unmistakable signs of profound change in the global strategic framework have become concrete in the past year. The stress in the structure has already developed into fissures. The transformation, in reality, has been underway since the end of the Cold War, and will continue and compound for at least another decade. The balance of power is changing. Apart from the wave of globalization, which was really a precursor event, what is now emerging is the first truly fundamental change since the end of the Cold War, and, in global terms, it is a change which may redefine entire...

One of the great megatrends is this movement towards decentralization rather than increased centralization. The leading paradigm of this is the personal computer and how it decentralized information processing from highly centralized processing of the mainframe computers. The wireless movement took this even further, in liberating us from the limitations of wires. Rail was the solution for transportation in the 19th century; the automobile supplanted them in the 20th century, and because of that success, created problems of its own. However, it is highly unlikely that the solution to the auto problem is to go back to rail; that would...