{"product_id":"the-great-fracture-a-prediction-not-a-possibility-9798198477537","title":"The Great Fracture: A Prediction, Not a Possibility","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alex Vance\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Theory - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a warning. Warnings imply you can still act.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 2100, the world you live in will not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dollar will no longer be money outside North America. The internet will have splintered into three incompatible networks. Africa will be a Chinese province in everything but name. Europe will survive as a tributary protectorate, grateful to be allowed. The countries that fall between the three blocs will simply stop being mentioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of this is invented. Every claim in these pages is a direct extrapolation of trends already underway - trade wars, chip embargoes, shuttered embassies, sanctioned currencies, digital iron curtains, the quiet evacuation of American bases, the loud arrival of Chinese ones. The author has not built a hypothetical world. He has finished the one we have already started.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Fracture\u003c\/i\u003e maps the three blocs that will divide the 21st century. \u003cb\u003eFortress America\u003c\/b\u003e, sealed behind two oceans and indifferent to a planet it no longer needs. \u003cb\u003eThe Axis of the Dragon\u003c\/b\u003e, an empire of mass, surveillance, and inexhaustible hunger. \u003cb\u003eThe Marble Pact\u003c\/b\u003e the last alliance of survivors, bound together not by friendship but by the understanding that they had no other choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author does not present this as one possible future among many. He presents it as the most probable one. A prediction, with all the risks that entails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can close this book. You cannot close the century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890512511127,"sku":"9798198477537","price":1262.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198477537.webp?v=1781180324","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-great-fracture-a-prediction-not-a-possibility-9798198477537","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}