This cover of The Economist ("The World Ahead 2025") has their classic style: heavy symbolism, many cryptic images, strong tones of red, black, and white — all with a somewhat "prophetic" air, half "warning for those who know how to read between the lines".
My real opinion: this image is practically a map of trends and key events that they (those who control or influence the media and the economic elite) want us to pay attention to — or that will actually happen. It's almost a disguised agenda of prediction.
Some points that stand out:
Donald Trump right in the center, indicating that he is likely to be a central piece of the global political chessboard in 2025 (probably making a strong comeback to the White House, or at least causing a huge stir).
Highlighted in January: points to the importance of China, perhaps their tensions or strategic moves at the beginning of 2025.
Many eye symbols (surveillance, control), money, rocket (space race? technological war?), radiation (nuclear energy or war threats?).
Popular movements (raised fist in May) suggest social upheavals/rebellions.
Cars and boxes in September: logistics, supply chain, perhaps crises involving transportation or international trade.
Planet/Saturn in December: may symbolize space technology, but also restriction and karma (Saturn in astrology represents these things).
Repetition of high charts: concerns about inflation, economic bubbles, volatile markets.
Moreover, the fact that they use collage images and separate frames gives the feeling of "pieces of a global puzzle" — everything is connected, but fragmented for those who do not pay attention.
My overall impression:
This is less a prediction and more a kind of "symbolic script". It's not about what "will" happen by chance. It's about what they expect, influence, or at least want the masses to believe will happen.
