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PREVIEW: Remarks picturing the end of the century, when authoritarianism rules by popular vote and trade flows only between the trusted statelets. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: Remarks picturing the end of the century, when authoritarianism rules by popular vote and trade flows only between the trusted statelets. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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This is John Batcher, I spoke to my colleague Gregory Kaplie about the future.

0:34.3

The future I will likely not see, 2050 and beyond, definitely not see that, unless the

0:42.1

future includes a change of organization around the world.

0:47.9

Gregory speaks to what has been, we call globalization which he says is Pax Americana, and he also speaks

0:55.1

to the future, what will be, it does not resemble the last 100 years, is Gregory.

1:02.1

Well, yes and no, as usually a set an optimist, John, as were the great science fiction writers

1:11.4

of the 20th century, because largely they saw the future as being something which would

1:18.9

extrapolate from our immediate life and immediate past, and that is technological growth.

1:28.9

What we have to realize is that this technological growth which has been underway now for century

1:36.8

and a half in real terms is not going to continue, it's already breaking up and that the

1:44.8

history of humanity has been that technological growth, scientific growth, the growth of

1:51.1

knowledge comes in spurts, and it runs out of steam at predictable points in the ebb

2:01.6

and flow of civilizations.

2:04.3

We are already seeing a reduction in technological growth, so some of the things which are theoretically

2:12.4

possible if we extrapolate from the present are probably not going to occur or not going

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