Forecast for the Next 25 Years
The World Future Society tends to put out exceptional long range trends. The most recent list is interesting in so many was as it looks into a mix of positive and negative trends. The ecological impact of our ways are apparent in the trends; a mass extinction, floods, and peak water. The continued scientific advancements appear in terms of textiles, computer enhanced decision making, and a healthier population. Read on and go to the World Future Society site to see some analysis.
Forecast #1: The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025.
Forecast #2: Fashion will go wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile industry.
Forecast #3: The threat of another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States.
Forecast #4: Counterfeiting of currency will proliferate, driving the move toward a cashless society.
Forecast #5: The earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event
Forecast #6: Water will be in the twenty-first century what oil was in the twentieth century.
Forecast #7: World population by 2050 may grow larger than previously expected, due in part to healthier, longer-living people.
Forecast #8: The number of Africans imperiled by floods will grow 70-fold by 2080.
Forecast #9: Rising prices for natural resources could lead to a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic.
Forecast #10: More decisions will be made by nonhuman entities.




