2010 will IMO begin the first decade in which we truly move away from the previous century. The first decade in which communications technologies which have shrunk the world and connected it’s people in direct ways, begin to become a political factor.
The decade in which the concept emerges that a globally-connected economy makes nations interdependent and therefore compelled to negotiate, and also puts workers in
a single boat – with shared interests & an increasingly unified voice to demand socio-economic progress on a world scale. That’s a bit hard to visualize at the ’10’s inception, but will be on the radar by it’s close I predict. Recessions on one continent pull the others in it, as we have seen. Governments need to act in coordinated ways to counter it – as they did with the present one – and social safety-nets need to be strengthened where inadequate to cover human suffering, which is most nations of course.

The global economy is not to be feared, only regulated.

That allows us to not only create new wealth and prosperity, but also share it. At least moreso than in decades and centuries prior. Click on the links in B/P Favored at right
to learn how Bill Clinton and Bill & Melinda Gates and Kiva.org, have already begun enfranchising people without regard to national boundaries. They will go down as pioneers of positive globalized change – whereas proponents of laissez-faire neglect, dereliction and vast inequality will hopefully close the decade even more on the scrapheap of history than they are at present.

I’m pleased to have launched Balkingpoints.com into these dawning prospects for
our planet.