by Paul Rogers for openDemocracy

Never make predictions, especially about the future, is a wise piece of advice. But prophecy can also be understood as "suggesting the possible." The possible large-scale consequences of current global trends have been explored in an earlier column in this series (see "A century on the edge, 1945-2045," 29 December 2007). The future imagined, hoped for or feared today may not be so distant, however. What might the world look like only a little more than a decade ahead, in 2020? Here are two scenarios.

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