#futurust

most of the global increase in GDP is due to innovations in small processing (ie smart phones) and data accumulation and that the costs in both those developments were the major (or crucial) driving forces behind that increase in Global-GDP. (to believe and expect GDP increases is a logical fallacy and propaganda) is coming to an end. Cell phone costs are rising, indicating a lesser return on smart phone development, a trend that will only worsen.  And the pervasiveness of smart phones in all capitally advanced national markets is evidence enough of how dependent our global economy is on those industries. their stagnation and eventual decrease will result in lifestyle changes that will only get worse with current administrative recklessness - In the same way those with malicious intent light fires purposefully - i think those incorporated psychopaths will take advantage of that disruption------...aka capitalize and decimate our global GDP, leaving to a more unoccupied, hungry, interspersed population through out the world rendered less capable by those industries, without any preemptive effort. it will be another low in humanities hindsight. 

Stick around for the end of the interview, in which Ross makes an impassioned case for why the word "futurist" is just fine, thank you very much - a noble and honorable profession for a world in constant evolution."