[jjakque]

My forecast for near future geopolitics is grim as collateral damages will happen in most countries, first world or not, west or not.

I am also pessimistic about open initiatives (open source, open data, open standards etc) as benefiters will exponentially overweight contributors, to a point contributors will sick of people eating free lunches. It may also become more and more illegal to disclose security risks and software vulnerabilities.