Why Things May Never Return To Normal

April 10, 2009 04:24 PM ET | Rick Newman

This will all blow over, right? The financial crisis will end, the economy will recover, prosperity will return, and America will reclaim its place as the world’s model nation. Right?

Maybe not. In his new book, The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that many of the systems and institutions we’ve relied on for decades have failed, leaving us without the tools we need to navigate a complex and dangerous world. Ramo, a managing director at the consulting firm Kissinger Associates and former foreign editor at Time, draws on learnings from Silicon Valley venture capitalists, Middle Eastern terrorists and Japanese video-game designers to write about a new epoch in which change will be constant and unpredictable. I spoke to him recently and asked what this means for ordinary Americans. Excerpts:

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