Chapter 14, The Future Summary and Analysis

Nobody can know what will happen in the next one hundred years. There will be changes in the world that cannot be predicted. All that can be said is that if someone goes back one hundred years in time, they see conditions and a way of life that seems primitive to them. This will also be true if people one hundred years in the future came back to life at the current time. The big question is what kind of economic and social changes will occur and whether or not they will be desirable.

The idea is to have some kind of general goal for the future and then to develop a plan to work toward it. Yunus would like to see a world that is free from poverty. All people should be able to meet their...