ABSTRACT
“The Next Society,” written in the summer of 2001, was scheduled to be published in the Economist in the week of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington on September 11th. It had to be postponed for two months until November 3, 2001. The September 11 attack fundamentally changed world politics. But it did not change the equally drastic changes in society, especially in the society of the developed countries, with which this part deals. It is therefore published here in its entirety.196
