A LAN AYRE LOOKS AT HOW THE PAST COULD PROVIDE CLUES TO THE FUTURE - AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FINDING THE RIGHT BLEND...

HISTORY doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,’ said Mark Twain. Winston Churchill claimed, with some justification, that looking back helped him see the future. Indeed, the further back in history he looked ‘the further forward he was likely to see’. Some ancient Greeks observed ‘there is nothing new under the Sun’.
Strauss and Howe in the Fourth Turning identified a saeculum of between 80-100 years: a period when the spi...