Reply #3: Here's a list of 2008 predictions from Alvin Toffler, a futurist and author of Future Shock,

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War And Anti-War,Third Wave, and Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created And How It Will Change Our Lives, among many others.

I don't see anything on the list we haven't discussed in this forum, but thought I'd post it anyway.
Here are a few things from the list:


- The war "will continue to be a major issue (in the elections). Plus the whole issue of our relationship to Islam."

- "The issue of religion is still going to be a big one -- whether it's political or social."

- "We're going to see bureaucracies falling on their behinds. We're going to see the breakdown of our business institutions -- companies, government agencies, fail or collapse. We're headed for a period of institutional Katrinas."

- "I think the term 'systemic' is going to come into use. People will realize that the problems we have are not individual governments, businesses or industries, but systemic."

- "I think we're going to see a continuation of what's happening (in popular culture) -- additional products with user-generated value."

- "We're moving in the direction of desktop manufacturing."

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