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Hello and welcome to the bunker for News Without the Nonsense.

I'm Seth Till.

For 40 years, The Economist magazine has spent every November casting its mystic runes towards the future. Yes, it's time for the world ahead, their annual forecast of the next year. It's been a patchy record. They didn't see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming, but they did predict the rise of George W. Bush in the late 1990s. And they've now published The World Ahead 2026. Here to discuss it is Tom

Standich, a published historian and former science correspondent, who is deputy editor of the economist,

and edits the world ahead. Welcome to the bunker, Tom. Hello, good to be here.

Can I start off by just asking about the exercise? I mean, a cynic might ask, why is this relevant? You know,

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