Social
From Future
The future of SOCIAL
Products of all kinds will be customised
Infrastructures will be self monitoring, using smart materials and sensors.
Factory manufactured housing will be the norm
English still the global language
Numerous world-wide virtual communities
World-wide popular culture, regardless of government intervention
On line voting
Electronic shopping for many products will be the norm
National decisions influenced by electronic referenda
World population > 7.5 billion
Average age in advanced nations will be 41
Migration regulated by international law
State pensions on a need only basis
More recreation and leisure time in middle classes
Still mass starvation in 3rd world
Rise of secular substitutes for religion, such as network based groups
Electronic newspaper to households
Various forms of electronic addiction will be a big problem
Replacement of people leads to anti-technology subculture
Power will be held more by corporations than by countries
Some cybernations will exist which have significant economic muscle
Many people will have nationality of both geonation and cybernation
3rd world technology highly vulnerable to 1st world hackers
