In my enumeration of future trends I failed to mention the one that partly underlies all the others, and that is the exponential increase in world population and the ever more authoritarian methods governments feel they must use to keep populations in line, given the conflicting aspirations of the two groups.
Populations benefit from new means of communication with which to meet the increased use of force by government, but the latter will inevitably win out.
This brings us to another major trend, that between centralization, technology and the rape of the earth and the decentralizing, earth friendly aspirations of Occupy and other grass roots movements around the world.
Rather than a clash of civilizations, we are witnessing a clash of cultures, as expressed in all the other trends.
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