The Turbulent Middle: What 2026 Looks Like for People Caught Between Economies

By Futurist Thomas Frey

When the Ground Shifts Beneath Your Feet

2026 will be profoundly disruptive—jobs disappearing faster than expected, AI-native startups appearing overnight, income fluctuations nobody anticipated. The economic models we’ve relied on for decades are breaking simultaneously, and in the middle of all this chaos are millions of people struggling to find the new equilibrium.

Let me show you what that actually looks like on the ground, in real lives, during the most turbulent economic transition in a generation.

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