The Disunited States - the American economic model has five decades to live
Paul Saffo, notable futurist and advisor to the World Economic Forum, believes there’s a fifty percent chance that the United States will have ceased to be a single nation within the next half a century - and that this would be a desirable outcome. I’m not an economist (nor do I play one on television), but I think I can see the points he’s making here. The question is - would the end result be something like the ancient Greek city-states, or some bizarre balkanized smorgasbord of corporations and micro-nations, as in Stephenson’s Snow Crash? [BeyondTheBeyond]
September 13th, 2007 at 5:29 am
The great thing about the future is the immense number of inconceivables that will happen. Not just absurd stuff we see on the margins today but really things we havent even got words for. Loveit!