In the meantime ordinary people in an ever shrinking middle class are watching their lives becoming more and more complicated,their buying capacity reduced and a very tiny part of the population becoming insanely rich. Wether you like it or not, the above is a perfect breeding ground for votes based on dissatisfaction (compare the Treaty of Versaille that in a long term created a breeding ground for Hitler).

The signum of todays capitalism,eternal growth and globalisation,creates a worldwide infrastructure that already has put our planet on the brink of ecological breakdown. Allthough evident by hard scientific data(frequency of forrestfires as example), this is denied by politicians on the extreme right of the political spectre. Again the above ingridients contribute to a future perfect storm. Wether you have a religious perspective or not, to me it´s obvious that you can´t build a society on a mortal sin-greed.

The good thing is that how ever you try to predict future you will be wrong (compare Francis Fukuyama with "End of history" and Ray Kurzweil from Google) and whatever happens, the journey into 2025 will be very exciting,both from a private perspective (crossing the Atlantic to the Americas) and a global perspective, with an unpredictable president in the Whitehouse.