Ubiquitous Transparency, New Models of Development, The Rise of the Post-Hegemonic World

Resource collapse -- the biggie. With the rise of China and India, energy alone will be a huge issue. It might not be pretty at all.

Despite its evaporation in some discourses of the future, in addition to the reified abstractions set to determine the fate of humanity, I believe it is precipitous even now to assume the death of old fashioned political action by the flesh and blood that swirls in the bodies of the human machines.

Um, I didn't get that.