28 Jan 2025

Feature interview: The Economist on what's coming in 2025

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 28 January 2025

2024 taught us to expect the unbelievable says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine with last year's assassination attempts on Donald Trump, exploding walkie-talkies in the Middle East and chopsticks catching giant rockets.  

Every year, the magazine looks at trends in a special edition called The World Ahead in 2025.  We'll talk to Standage about what he says will be the hallmark of the coming year, uncertainty, as well as the implications of the Trump presidency in America, tariff talks across the globe and a reckoning for artificial intelligence regulation and overtourism.

The Economist "World Ahead" 2025 cover

Photo: The Economist