[guard-of-terra]

"A good segment (30%) of the world barely works" - and behaves exactly like disgrunted arabs in poor muslim countries?

I.e. radicalize, want to blow up the world, ready to take arms for $150/month?

Another role model for those people is 1st world ghettos. We're not doing it better than that yet. "The cost of subsistence has been driven down significantly", that's nice if you actually have some independent source of income. Otherwise you're a slave of someone who has it.

"Solar panels are everywhere" - making electricity out of rain, darkness and misery anyone? Not every country in the world has enough sunshine (however, most do)

Not a world of explaination why India is superpower. Not a word about Europe.

[jp555]

I'd bet more than 30% of Greeks "barely work" and they're not radicalized. I wonder why that is?

[guard-of-terra]

Because they've only been out of work for relatively short period of time. Of course, people with european mentality will take more time to radicalize, but it's going to happen.

Greece is also already home to far-right and far-left political forces seeing mainstream acceptance.

Also, being a part of united Europe, they can find work in other european countries. Thus the most energetic people leave and get busy.

[guard-of-terra]

Anyway, that's not "future". That's more of "now". Can we please have some real future sometime?

With, I don't know, space travel, teleportation, telepathy, nanoassembly, digital democracy, aliens?

[coldtea]

And unicorns spreading magic dust...