I believe that a fundamental shift in human organizational structure is taking place and that it is having a profound effect on all aspects of life. I believe that this shift is happening at an exponentially increasing speed, and that the traditional bastions of power are doing everything they can to prevent it from coming to a peak, because they wish to remain the head of a hierarchy in an increasingly networked world. I think that the inherent structures that their groups must take, in order to allow for the positions of power which they so desperately desire, have fundamental limitations that substantially slow their reaction time. However, they do have a lot of money and a lot of people below them so really who knows what the future holds. I imagine it will either be an Orwellian police state, once the state gets into full gear and puts an end to modern threats to its power, or a libertarian utopia after the concept of the state fades into history (or is at least dramatically modified, in practice).