The editors' top 10 forecasts from Outlook 2008: from the November-December issue of THE FUTURIST.
- The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025.
- Fashion will go wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile
- The threat of another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States
- Counterfeiting of currency will proliferate, driving the move toward a cashless society.
- The earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event.
- Water will be in the twenty-first century what oil was in the twentieth century.
- World population by 2050 may grow larger than previously expected, due in part to healthier, longer-living people.
- The number of Africans imperiled by floods will grow 70-fold by 2080.
- Rising prices for natural resources could lead to a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic.
- More decisions will be made by nonhuman entities.
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