Via PJ Media:

…given conditions as they exist today, where do you think we are headed in 20 years, and what will the world look like?

PJ Media » The Future? Let’s Ask a Sci-Fi Writer

Points:

  • “I expect resurgent fascism in Italy, Spain, and France at a minimum, as socialism does what it does best — fail disastrously.”
  • “The U.S. is still the world leader, but what it leads is much reduced from even 20 years before.”
  • “For the last 100 years we’ve been on this path where the schools create serfs and the state extends to points unheard of, and … well, it’s the whole miserable history of the 21st century.”
  • “If we continue down our current path of ever-growing government, increasing dependency, bloated bureaucracy, and never-ending spending, then within twenty years we will see an economic collapse like the world has never known.”

The respondents were a panel of science-fiction writers, and they seem to have a dystopian view of things.