Technology will cause disruption and create opportunity at an accelerating pace, placing unprecedented pressure on ‘society’, China will move towards a half-way house of democracy, USA will become the Disunited States of America while India will be burdened with 150 billion people below the poverty line by 2050, according to the conclusions of a think-tank.
The report is produced by Tangent Link, investment analysts and fund managers with a focus on global interactive media, industrial, and defence and aerospace industries, as well as broader cyber and geopolitical areas. The report’s author John Longhurst was recently voted by Defence News as one of the 100 most influential people in the US Defence Establishment and has been actively involved in start-up companies over the past decade.
Global corporations (or often, their trillionaire owners) and China and US will vie for dominance of Antarctica and the Moon, especially mineral rights. Overall, we see more risk for conflagration amongst major states in the coming period, than at any time since the Korean War, the report says,
America’s gated communities gradually morph into gated towns, where the richest 1% fly to each other and no longer use national roads (which have fallen into pre-1930’s state of repair). Average lifespan of “the 1%” is 20 years higher than the 99%. The number of people
|with net worth below $50,000 (in 2013 $) rises from 60% of the population (200m people, in 2014 money), to 90%, following the steady pushback on pension and healthcare coverage, as well as complete dominance of ‘capital’ in American society. Supreme Court votes in 2012-15 allowing unlimited spending in political campaigns, allows “the 1%” to run the political agenda solely to protect their interests; ‘Washington’ / Congress no longer represents “American’s” interests. Not a single member of Congress is able to recite the Lincoln
The report also predicts massive societal polarisation taking place. Anti-robot legislation is passed in low-tech States, forcing human labour-only policies.
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