The time of the nomads". What will the "brave new world" look like according to Jacques Attali almost twenty years ago, one of the ideologues of the "New World Order", Jacques Attali, described the future as a world of nomads. Its basis will be "information nomads" without an address and a stable family: they will carry on themselves and on themselves everything that will constitute its social meaning (smartphones, self-diagnosis devices and replaceable organs). The social ideal of health and knowledge is the motivation for them to conform to the norm, for fear of becoming an exception. In this society high incomes will be the share of those who rent knowledge or information; Capital will go where the work is most creative, whatever its costs, and where the uncreative work is at the lowest price. Attali was sure that a continental union would be established: the European Union + Russia, which would oppose the global nomads. Read more: Besti Patreon sponsor I would also pay attention to Attali's classification - he singles out the "hegemon" not as a state, but as a ruling city. According to Attali, there were eight such centers under capitalism: from the 13th to the 20th centuries, the market order was replaced by eight forms, which were characterized by: - eight "hearts": Bruges in 1300, Venice in 1450, Antwerp in 1500, Genoa in 1550, Amsterdam in 1650, London in 1750, Boston In 1880, New York in 1930. - Eight main technical innovations, the most important of which are: stern rudder, caravel, steam engine, internal combustion engine, electric engine. - Eight social functions performed by the service sector (feeding, clothing, transportation, maintenance, hospitality, etc.) have become