Russia is a ticking time bomb. Ditto for Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Algeria, the Balkans, the Mideast. Half the Third World's population is under 18. The old order is breaking up. Centralized governments are obsolescent.
European unification contrasts with growing tribalism and regionalism in other parts of the world.
The Internet may be the greatest revolutionary force since the printing press. Mutated forms of Communism and Nazism will return. Water will be more important than oil. I'm perking up. I of the 21st Century.