Oh man! This is easily one of my favorite books this year. In this book, Megatrends master, John Naisbitt, shared his big-picture thinking process and broke it down into “Mindsets.” And then he applies these mindsets to paint “pictures of the future” of culture, economics, China, Europe, and our evolutionary era. If you’re interested in seeing BIG pictures and how the future is embedded in the present, this book is for you.

Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is “globalization.” No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of “spontaneous order.”

…countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.