If you had been in the ruins of, say, London in 1945, or Berlin, and you had said, "Sixty years from now, this is going to be the most peaceful, prosperous part of the planet," people would have thought you were certifiably insane.
런던이나 베를린의 폐허 가운데서 "지금부터 60년은 지구 역사상 가장 평화스럽고 번영을 누리는 시대가 될 것입니다. "라고 말했다면, 사람들은 여러분을 완전히 미친 사람이라 생각했을 것입니다.