I have a bad feeling about the next 10 years. 1900-1910 was a decade of globalization and affluence for certain classes and a big split between rich and poor, in fact rather like 2000-2010. 1910-1920 was not a happy period for anyone.
yep, we're due for a small WWIII (there are set of global problems - pollution, including green house gases, human rights, including ethnic cleansing, currencies valuations, intellectual property rights, Internet management - which can't be solved in the current framework of 180 states getting individually to agree to a treaty and after that actually obeying the treaty)
>10. Political-Economic reorganization:
[...] so I'm sure that people will muddle through and figure out some way to distribute it equitably...
he forgot
11. rapid increase of number of countries armed with nukes
I agree, it's likely to be a time of great disorder and suffering. God forbid there should be another World War, but many of the reasons for international amicability are now breaking down, like easy trade and a relatively simple geopolitical structure.