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Board Politics & Society
Re: Future World-Changing Megatrends
by
ansible adams
on 29/07/2011, 21:19:29 UTC
In the spirit of the original list:

  • Lyndon LaRouche
  • Time travel
  • Unicorn disclosure

More seriously:

  • Aquifer depletion and water shortages
  • Increasing oil prices
  • Decreasing renewable energy prices
  • Automated warfare
  • Climate change
  • Additive manufacturing
  • The end of Moore's Law and failure-to-materialize of the Technological Singularity*
  • Global convergence of material standards of living

Far more speculative, but not impossible and certainly disruptive if they come to pass:

  • Molecular manufacturing as in Drexler's Engines of Creation
  • Increasing the overall human life span or just finding a way to keep people healthy and productive up until death
  • Nuclear war, even a "little" one like between Pakistan and India

*This is more of a refutation of another popular megatrend idea than a trend in itself