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Soft “EuroLanding” or "Happy End" in EuroLand
The "Happy Ending" twist to Euro concerns involves the survival of the European political project and the emergence of a new “Euro Deal”, which dramatically transforms the economic and political landscape of Europe. On the ...
Carbon crunch and the climate bubble
Who will bail out the climate bubble? Global carbon markets and pricing mechanisms fulfil the aspirations of the global climate community. But they quickly lead to runaway speculation, high-risk carbon derivatives markets, and ...
All goods and services produced or consumed by people can be ...
The growing use of technologies in production is a significant trend, along with the related structural unemployment of a considerable part of the workforce. This can result in a wild card which could be characterised as a turn...
Chinese society collapsing under its own weight.
The only thing holding China together is the People’s Republican Party and habit. China could go down and take a lot of debts and make the current financial crisis look like nothing.
Somebody cracks RSA, which is a standard inscription
If this was done in a public domain way, the entire banking system and ATMs would stop working and could not be used, as they would be insecure. The whole thing is based on one inscription algorithm.
Significant’ financial events cause ‘significant’ chan ...
For instance China calling in debts to undermine a G20 economy leading to significant financial difficulties in Europe and social unrest. There will be an initial significant decrease in science activity, coupled with societal ...
Molecular manufacturing turns into the next industrial revol ...
The old vision of molecular nanotechnology (first introduced by Drexler) materializes. "universal nano-assemblers" or "nanofactories" build objects of practically any arbitrary size and complexity (including copies of themselve...
Drugs are de-criminalised or legalised. This has important social implications and a tremendous impact on the security and economy of many countries.
Economic crisis and the unsustainable levels of debt in some countries brings about the paralysis or even disintegration of the EU
