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10 Forecasts for 2025 and Beyond
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- By 2025, the world will have a billion millionaires.
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- Smart Fabrics and Intelligent Textiles could possibly revitalize the American and European textile industry.
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- The threat of another cold war with China or Russia is a distinct possiblity.
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- Due to advanced optical scanning technologies, currency counterfeiting will proliferate driving the move towards a cashless society.
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- The Earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event due to biodiversity collapse.
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- By 2025, water will be more vital than oil is now.
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- By 2025, world population will exceed our present forecasts.
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- The number of Africans imperilled by floods will grow 70 fold by 2080.
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- Rising prices for natural resources could lead to a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic.
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- More decisions will be made by nonhuman entities.
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