"Has the world gone mad?" No doubt, you, like me, have heard this expression a lot more often in the past couple of weeks.

This is because of President Donald Trump's baseless connection between autism and paracetamol; his imposition of five days' notice of tariffs against drug companies that do not build plants in America; and Optus's failure on the emergency network, causing death, among other things.

It is worthwhile looking at how and why the world has "gone mad".

To do that, let's look at the big changes this century to get some related clues: the internet, economic disruption, planetary resource limitations, and asymmetric warfare. Trump is a symptom of these causes, not the cause itself.

In the 1990s, the inventor of the World Wide Web - Tim Berniers-Lee thought the internet wou

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