What If? Expecting the unexpected: improbable events that could shape 2018

Expecting the unexpected: improbable events that could shape 2018

Take Brexit Britain and Trump’s America. Add climate change, instability in the Middle East, cryptocurrencies, and self-driving cars… and you have the world in 2018: hopeful, yet seemingly unpredictable.

We have assembled 11 unlikely events that - if they somehow happened - have the potential to profoundly affect the world as we know it. Explore some of the great unknowns facing us all today…

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…the Great Barrier Reef dies due to climate change?

…the British housing market collapses?

…China’s government-backed cryptocurrency overtakes bitcoin?

…Venezuela defaults on its debt?

…oil returns to $100 per barrel?

…a snap election in the UK makes Corbyn PM?

…the Qatar world cup is moved to another country?

…Trump wins a second term?

…Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal?

…Apple repatriates all $200 billion of its foreign assets?

…Tesla files for bankruptcy?

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