What Will the World Remember About 2025?
What Will the World Remember About 2025? A year when AI, climate, and power all crossed a line in the sand Framing the Question When we ask what the world will remember about 2025 fifty years from now , we’re really asking which of today’s headlines will harden into tomorrow’s history. Most years blur together; a few become shorthand — “1968,” “1989,” “2020.” 2025 has all the ingredients to join that list: surging artificial intelligence, record planetary heat, and a reshuffling of global power. In this post, we’ll explore why future generations may see 2025 less as “just another year” and more as a hinge — the moment when AI left the lab, climate warnings stopped being abstract, and a new geopolitical era took shape. How History Actually Remembers a Year If you look backward, history tends to compress years into one or two dominant stories: 1969 : the Moon landing 1989 : the fall of the Berlin Wall 2001 : 9/11 2020 : the COVID-19 pandemic Of course, many other things happened in ...