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George friedman has forecasted the coming trends politics, technology, population, and culture of the next century in the next 100 years, and focused his predictions on the coming ten years in the next decade. The world circa 2050, according to george friedmans book. The next 100 years explained the reasons and constant involvement by the usa in conflicts around the world and the inability of the human race to concentrate on many of our more serious problems such as wealth being held by a minority. The next 100 years summary the next 100 years is a compelling and entertaining book in which political analyst george friedman makes some precise predictions which should play out in the 21 st century. I just finished george friedman s the next 100 years. Friedman shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, at the dawn of a new erawith changes in store, including.
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