1. The world will
have a billion millionaires by 2025.
2. Fashion will go
wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile
industry.
3. The threat of
another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as
the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States
4. Counterfeiting of
currency will proliferate, driving the move toward a cashless society.
5.
The earth is on the
verge of a significant extinction event.
6. Water will be in
the twenty-first century what oil was in the twentieth century.
7.
World population by 2050 may grow larger than previously expected,
due in part to healthier, longer-living people.
8.
The number of Africans imperiled by floods will grow 70-fold by 2080
9.
Rising prices for natural resources could lead to a full-scale rush
to develop the Arctic
10. More decisions
will be made by nonhuman entities.
clipped from: www.wfs.org