alvin toffler's predictions

The author of 1970's blockbuster - Future shock - made some unbelievable claims in the past that has come true...so perhaps you should read this...

His Consultancy predicts

1IN THE next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power,at a never-before-seen rate, as countries realise 'you can't be successful with just 50 per cent of the population participating in decision-making
2 Muslim immigration to the West will rise
3 office workers will be unchained from their cubicles
4 South America will see sustained economic growth
5 the Middle East will become 'a tangle of religions, sects and ethnicities
6 Only a very small number of states will continue to behave as 'rogue' nations, Toffler Associates says, naming North Korea and Iran.

7 China will position itself as a global economic power, allying with Brazil and India to influence currency use
8 China will ally herself with with Venezuela and African nations to ensure its energy needs are met.

9 The United States, meanwhile, will depend on China for 17 rare earth metals that are essential to produce everything from weapons components to radars to wind turbines and hybrid cars.

10 The development of alternative energy forms will create 'losers in a post-petroleum world' including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, several Gulf states, Russia and Venezuela

11Christianity will rise rapidly in the global South, while Muslims will migrate in increasing numbers to the West, where their presence will reshape public attitudes and government policies.

12 Climate change will fuel conflict as (1) melting sea ice exposes mineral wealth and oil fields in the Arctic and (2)as rising sea levels force large populations from their homes.
13 An ageing population will cause spending on long-term care services for the elderly to nearly quadruple by 2050,

14 And in the next 40 years, information-gathering will speed up even more as the world enters the Petabyte Age