.Today I will begin my thoughts for the future. You may agree and you may disagree. All I can say is that over the years I have been able to foresee many things, but as time goes by, no one remembers what I have said and neither do they care. So I have decided to publish my thoughts for our future, which are likely to happen without me being able to say ' I told you so!'

I will serialize it over the next couple of weeks and will publish one section at a time.
I hope that you don't find it too boring.

     Introduction

Everything has a pattern and today is no different. What we are seeing at the moment are conflicts, whether they are political, Terrorism, Economical, Social, Cultural.

All of them are linked and a symptom of the changes that are occurring globally.

Let’s take the global pattern I mentioned. When man came to be, he started to expand in population. This population needed feeding, so they created hamlets, then Villages and then Towns and then Cities. Up until this time the main focus was creating enough food to feed everyone. Families became farmers, who then invited friends to join the farming business.

Eventually, these communities became so big that food and requirements became large enough to enter another pattern.

At this point, we start to enter into the Industrial pattern and the need to standardize goods. This is the era where we became materialistic. This began about 1780 AD when the first machines were invented. Then things began to balloon. Hence the birth of the Manufacturing stages. This brought in large buildings and assembly lines. As these grew, it brought in Management, which then began the ‘chain of command’ which then brought in middle management and senior management.

This era, brought in people wanting to better themselves, by showing trophies like; houses, cars, jewelry etc.

In 1950’s a new introduction was shown and this was the introduction of TV and computers.

This pattern is still in the current phase, but it is beginning to clash with a new phase.

This new phase is where my thoughts begin.

Don’t be under any illusion, the new pattern we are entering will clash significantly with the current pattern and the next phase will take over in a short period of time.

The global turmoil is part of the start of this clash.

We have global unemployment, which causes population unrest through boredom, as well as low esteem, having had secure jobs for many years.

We have terrorism, which is caused by poverty, when others have riches. It’s very easy to create unrest and , when people are finding day to day life a struggle. The Taliban for example provide promises, religion, a culture and some compensation for families.

We have political unrest in many of the developed countries. Why?  We can’t trust politicians anymore.

They have proven to lie, they have proven to line their own pockets and as for serving their electorate, these politicians are few and far between. Political bodies are unelected and yet pass laws that we don’t want and certainly don’t provide any benefit to us!

So based on this I decided to think and read about the future and I decided to share my thoughts with you.

There has to be a global stewardship created and people will look towards personal fulfillment.

We will look for unity in economic and social justice, as the law becomes unmanageable due to lack of resources. Leadership will include sharing local, national and global affairs.