The World Future Society recently published their top ten of future developments to keep an eye on in view of 2009 and beyond:

Everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030.

Bioviolence will become a greater threat as the technology becomes more accessible. 

The car’s days as king of the road will soon be over.

Careers, and the college majors for preparing for them, are becoming more specialized.

There may not be world law in the foreseeable future, but the world’s legal systems will be networked.

The race for biomedical and genetic enhancement will — in the twenty-first century — be what the space race was in the previous century.

Professional knowledge will become obsolete almost as quickly as it’s acquired.

Urbanization will hit 60% by 2030.

The Middle East will become more secular while religious influence in China will grow.

Access to electricity will reach 83% of the world by 2030.

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