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Teenagers are changing the world in many widely different fields, from social and political leadership to new technologies that battle the effects of climate change. Many of them did so in the difficult year of 2020 even while facing great personal challenges. All the exceptional teenagers profiled here also appear in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s new Shapers of the Future series, highlighting 200 brilliant, already highly accomplished women and men under age 40 in all fields of endeavor.
Coming from every corner of the world, these young people serve as inspirations for the rest of us, young and old, to do better and try harder. This is especially true of 12 such people who were teenagers in 2020: they have located problems and delivered solutions, continuing to fight the good fight against the social and environmental woes that beset us everywhere.
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The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future” work in many fields and endeavors, embracing every corner and intersection of health and medicine, science and technology, and business and entrepreneurship. They are people of ideas, framing the intellectual questions and concerns that will guide future thought. They are scholars, builders, designers, architects, artists, teachers, writers, musicians, and social and political leaders. While under the age of 40 (as of January 2021), the 200 shapers of the future that we will highlight in this series have already left their mark on the present, and we expect to see much more invention, innovation, creation, and interpretation from them in times to come.
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