Recent Books

Powerful Times

Eamonn Kelly; Translated by Chung Sang-ho and Lee Ok-jung from English to Korean; Lux Media: 436pp., 19,800 won

Powerful Times presents readers with deep but easy insights into understanding the trends that will happen in the near future, and will help them brace for the upcoming changes.

The book says the world changes at an unprecedented rate, creating profound anxiety and deep confusion with seven different elements ― clarity and craziness; secular and sacred; power and vulnerability; technology acceleration and pushback; intangible and physical economies; prosperity and decline; people and the planet.

The author delves into the world systems overwhelmed by these seven factors, which continue to evolve and develop in a reciprocal relationship. Kelly urges readers to be aware of what is happening around them now and to prepare themselves for possible changes.

He goes into what he considers to be the three most likely scenarios to take place in the coming decade in accordance with the outcome of two basic yet fundamental crossroads we are in the process of going through.

- Chung Ah-young