Hi, I'm Zanny Minton Beddoes, the Economist's Editor-in-Chief.
Welcome back to The Insider.
This week my co-host Ed Carr is on a well-deserved holiday,
somewhere I think in windswept Western Ireland.
So joining me as co-host is Tom Standage, also Deputy Editor and host of Inside Tech.
And also editor of The World Ahead,
which is our annual future-gazing supplement which is out this week, all 92 pages of it.
Tom, welcome.
Great to be here.
And helping us in this future-gazing episode this week is Henry Curr, our Economics Editor.
Welcome back to the show.
Hi Zanny, good to be here.
And John Prideaux, our US Editor.
So I hope you're ready to do some future-gazing.
Tom, I didn't know this, but this is the 40th year we have done a forward-looking supplement.
And over the years not only have the covers changed, they've become progressively more intricate and designed.
They have actually led to quite a lot of conspiracy theory and fulmination in the further reaches of the internet
where people think that we know all kinds of things that are likely to happen.
Which of them have been the most striking elements of that for you?
If you go and look on YouTube, there's an awful lot of this stuff.