I have been lazy and forgot to post my thoughts on the future, so here they are in full!!
This is long......

Alan’s Tomorrows World

August 2013

1.     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 it will take over in a short period of time.

The global turmoil is part of the start of the 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 terrorism 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.

2.     Industry & Business

Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution we have had small companies, grow to big companies. Once they reach this level, the business introduced a management hierarchy.

Large companies became complex and it created a separation of types of workers i.e. White collar, blue collar, middle management, top management etc.

It created a conflict with workers, they fear speaking up, in case they say the wrong thing and the Manager becomes upset. I see the future as becoming an uprising for the employee where all workers will be able to be open and say things in truthfulness and not be afraid of any retribution from management. Otherwise how can companies succeed, while moving into the 4^th phase of our evolution.

We have seen recently, that companies become so big that eventually they can only make decisions by the most senior Manager and it’s their decisions that move the companies to their next goal.

However, it’s my view that most large companies are creating inertia in the decisions, or their progress, because one person cannot make all the right decisions.

The whole basis in today’s world is, what can we return to the shareholders?

There is no consultation with the workforce, because they are scared of saying anything.

And yet the workforce, are people who buy the products and have ideas and thoughts on how to improve the goods.

Because companies are so large and that currently there is an economic problem globally, companies feel that they now have total control over conditions and have introduced, zero hours contracts. This means that they can have workers when they say so and on their terms. This will of course lead to an eventual rebellion.

We are seeing in Greece and Spain 25% unemployment and this cannot continue to increase without revolutions. It’s likely, that after this period that companies MUST change on how they run companies.  Management will rewarding and accountable on several basis. They will have to look at staff health and instead of waiting for staff to become ill, they Must introduce employee Well Being programmes, to ensure that their staff mitigate illness as best possible. Managers will be judged on their community and social projects. How they will support local groups , whether sport or educational. Managers will be judged by their internal and external  social programmes (i.e. how they look after families and how they integrate families within the work for their families. Corporations will supply; Mental Health clinics, Massage facilities, psychotherapy, physiotherapy etc

The old style large company buildings will disappear when the following is taken into account:

·         Travel time for staff

·         Costs for running large offices i.e. restaurants, gyms, Office furniture

·         It will be cheaper for staff to work from home or from much smaller regional offices, where staff only need to visit infrequently.

This will lead to families becoming closer, an increase in local community projects

The Industrial ownership is changing globally. China has taken about 30% of all Raw material companies in Asia and are currently buying out the African countries. China also owns 95% of all Rare Earth material. Eventually they will hold the manufacturing world to ransom that china hasn’t taken over. This will be a reason albeit too late that government will fund new services elsewhere.

This means that corporations will begin to look at less profit and returns to their shareholders as a means of change and longevity of business and resources. Making staff a safe and happy and healthy environment will mean the world to all.

Corporation Chairman and board members will have a maturity not yet seen and they will take part in committees of local, regional and global magnitude and be asked to make decisions for the best of their people and the people of the world, as well as ethical responsibility, especially with regards to the environment, community concerns. They will also be responsible for economic, technological and social problems.

Management will look at all genders and use their feminine and masculine sides. This will make a balanced responsibility.

Business stakeholders will include;

·         Countries

·         Ecosystems

·         Gaia (Mother Earth & nature)

This means creating value for All.

Dysfunctional corporations and companies not willing to change for the better will not survive.

Picture of an imploding corporation. - Diagram not shown

1.     Improved short term earnings and cash performance

2.     Eventual demise of Corporation

Companies will need to promote:

·         Recycling

·         Fund Educational programmes

·         Employees serve on joint corporation / citizen committees, to determine community needs.

·         Peace

·         Service

·         Personal fulfillment

·         Planetary and personal health

·         Justice

·         Sharing

How is the Corporation handling its global responsibilities?

What is the Corporation doing to improve creativity and Vision

New Corporation Structure.

Structure                                   =          Community

Locus of control and authority   =          Consensual decision making; everyone a leader, everyone a follower

Role of Management                 =          Non-existant

Atmosphere                              =          Freedom of self expression for all, openness and acceptance, equality,

                                                            flexibility and lifelong learning.

Team value model - Diagram not shown

Managers can be chosen by product or project

Democratic Model - Diagram not shown

No leader / Manager

In all, by changing our view of the corporate world and the way that we work, will reduce crime, though more leveling of the corporate world and the creation of work in business or the community.

If we become can make more involvement with community and our environment, will make us closer to nature, which in turn will save Earth and we can live longer.

Corporate future promotion:

 Diagram not shown

3.     Humans & Medical

The population today is an ill group. We have massive obesity in countries, we have a growing Cancer death threat, with each region having its own problems.

If we just look at the Asian body compared to the European body, there is an obvious difference in the medical fraternity. To perform a heart operation is much more difficult on an Asian person compared to a European, because the arteries are much narrower. So we can look around the world and point various differences from different nationalities, not least of blood types and make up.

All of us and many people in the past have wanted to live longer, but how do we do this.

My view is that science and genetics will change our bodies in order to become more standardized.

If we can standardize bodies this means that we can lessen the rejection of organs and if we can do this, why can’t we have spare parts (organs) from the shelf!

People will become fitter and healthier than today and with the change of a standardized body, will improve intelligence.

The use of science and genetics can do this, but the main task is how can we keep a young skin? Either we find a cream that keeps our skin young and unwrinkled and can keep it moist and flexible and not dry with not flexibility. The other alternative is for genetics to be able to create a process of skin regeneration, so skin shedding. If reptiles can do this, doesn’t it make sense that humans can do the same.

Let’s say that Humans can live until they are 150 years old and can work until they are 100, this can have all kinds of benefits as well as non-benefits.

The point is that it should be possible and not in the too distant future.

People will seek a more holistic existence with their working life. They will want a more balanced life and not ‘ live to work! We will ask ourselves how can we have a better work balance and what purpose are we living for?

This will involve a decline in materialism and therefore our mindset will change. Since the Industrial age we have been very materialistic with new found wealth, but do we need it? The answer is No. why do we need debt, why do we need things we hardly use etc etc.

We will see a reduction in our stress levels.

4.     Technology

Technology is improving day by day. This can only mean that our lives MUST improve. It will mean, much better communication, better computers, better interactivity globally.

Our way of life can improve significantly, with technology. We will see body parts being created and being able to perform functions that we have on our bodies today. A hand or an arm will be able to have almost perfect functionality, which I guess will look like robotics to some. However, if you have the choice today would you like this technology improvement, or not being able to perform the functionality of a normal hand?

We will see an improvement to electrical goods, the usage of power will become significantly efficient. A solar panel which is currently the size of 3 foot by 1.5 foot will become the size of an A5 piece of paper and produce even more paper than its larger comparison.

Cars will use far less petrol or diesel. So if you have a car now that can drive a distance of 6 miles per litre, this will increase to 45 miles per litre. Part of this occur because our energy reserves will fall dramatically in the next 25 years and there has to be either a preservation of energy source or an alternative will need to be found.

5.     Agriculture

Scientists and farmers  today are finding different ways to increase harvest and food production by using genetics. At the moment they haven’t really found an acceptable way of performing this stage, but they will and they have to! The global population is increasing and more people are dying in Africa.

In tomorrow’s world we will be able to grow crops in sand. If grass can grow in sand, then there has to be a way that crops can grow in sand and I mean the size of large farms. Crops will be able to grow much quicker.

It’s well known that there are projects running now that uses Fish excrement, which is high in fertilization and will be used for crops on a large scale or even a regional scale. If you think of a large lake filled with millions of fish, we should be able to filter the water and grab the fish excrement, which is then used to fertilize crops. This will create a cycle on a regional level. So lake and Fish, produce more fish, filters to grab the excrement and purify water, excrement help the genetic crops grow, crops also provide the fish food thus creating a cycle that can be done on household basis, Area basis, regional basis etc.

6.     Science

Every day we read or hear from the news about a new scientific study that contradicts all the facts that we have heard before. What is good for and what is bad for us. Drugs that we have been told were safe, but turn out that they are not. It’s becoming a total farce and it is now coming to a point where we don’t want to hear about it anymore. The majority of the time these studies are funded by companies that have an interest in an outcome.

We are finding that some studies are educated guesses and in fact are not true.

The population is now at a point where they can’t believe science anymore.

7.     Politics

Governments- UK, USA, Middle East, Far East

We are currently seeing a global breakdown on politics. Not one piece of unrest is symptomatic of its own country, as each country is intertwined with global politics. People are demanding more input. Thye are fed up with government not being accountable or transparent in their governing. More importantly, not acting on behalf of the electorate or the dictators oppressing their populations, while they squander the riches.

People want to be collaborated, as they are not stupid

In the UK at the moment we are beginning to see unrest. There are demonstrations against:

·         Cutbacks in services as the government has reduced the funding to the local councils

·         Increase in taxes by direct and indirect tax.

e.g. the government is now forcing people living in council homes to have empty rooms, even though some people have lived in the house for 25-50 years and at the same time they have reduced their pensions and benefits. If a council tenant take sin a lodger to fill the room, then the government taxes the income! One case I have know is that the council has a shortage of social housing and say that a bedroom needs to be filled, but in fact have moved a single mother and her baby into a 3 bedroom house. On the other side of a coin is when the council moved a family of parents , 2 boys and 2 girls into a 4 bedroom house on the council instructions. Then the same council say that the 2 boys and 2 girls are of an age that they can share, so they are being charged a tax for a spare bedroom, even though the Mother protested that the council moved them to a 4 bedroom house and not a 3 bedroom house.

·         Reduction in benefits, or benefits that are being paid to people coming to the UK from Europe. There are many stories of immigrant Fathers coming to the UK, claiming more benefits than the UK inhabitants , even child allowance for the children they have at home in their own country, and sending the money home. This exports our taxes to other countries, without our knowledge or being able to have a say.

·         Immigration out of control, the government cannot con troll it and are in fear of upsetting the European parliament or being charged by the European courts. Yet having worked in various countries in Europe I can say that other countries do in fact have controls, but have their own way of dealing with it.

·         The economy being exported back to Europe – as I mentioned before our taxes are being exported already by means of everyone in Europe being able to claim more benefits than we as UK citizens can claim. In countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Estonia etc, in theory we can claim their benefits, however, (1) we are told we can’t (2) they are a fraction of the UK’s benefit schemes.

·         Youngsters not able to obtain jobs – With a record of unemployment of youngsters aged between 18-25 it will take years for us to help them.  The governments apprenticeship scheme is not like Germany’s for instance. A country with a good apprenticeship scheme needs manufacturing and a good building scheme. The UK can’t support this and the apprenticeship schemes are just college courses to keep unemployment figures low. As an example my son, a trained electrician went to the Olympic site in London. He was told he would get a job, because 95% OF THE WORKERS WERE FROM Poland. So our youngsters are at a disadvantage immediately.

MP’s and local councilors  in many governments of today are not accountable and neither are they made responsible for their decisions. Taxes are rising, services are being reduced and yet we as the electorate here that their salaries and expenses are being increased hugely.

Decisions are being made which cost the taxpayer huge amo0unts of money, without any consultation.

This is particularly real for the EU parliament. 2 examples I give:

1.     Lady Ashton asks for an increase of GBP25 million for her staff, while she travels globally, not able to make any decision s or do any good. She then comes to the end of her term with 6 months left and is still paid a huge salary, travels the world for no reason and receives a massive pension. The UK electorate didn’t vote, but she was placed there as a political body.

2.     The EU asked the UK for an increase of GB P 850 million along with other members of the EU, and then they announce a new lawyer office in Luxembourg for all  of their lawyers. This means more jobs for people of Luxembourg, lawyers having apartments in Luxembourg and travel and living expenses all being raised. Again without any vote to the electorate of the European countries.

The amount of taxation is now reaching it’s limit before there is massive riots and eventual anarchy in Europe before any stability occurs.

Therefore, nothing is transparent

In today’s world what use is the U.N. They make rules, they vote, but they do not take action, so what is their purpose?

Again unelected by people, no accountability, no responsibility ( I.e. hundreds of thousands of people killed in the Middle East  Libya, Syria, Iraq) and yet won’t sanctioned action by the U.S. or U.K.! this is absurd. People will stand up about this soon.

In the USA although the economy is beginning to pick up, what people can’t see is the breakdown of it’s manufacturing industry. Detroit is bankrupt, which was the huge car industry city. We are seeing the breakdown of the USA political powerhouse. The President out of a 4 year period cannot make a decision for more than 1.5 years of this period. After an election or re-election they don’t make a decision for a year, in the last year of their presidency they can’t make decisions. If you take it to the normal day to day working, the government makes very few decisions in any period of time now. There are too many committees, they have too many members to actually make a majority  or decisive decision.

Therefore in countries around the world, people will begin to take power in regions and with corporations and businesses, with an accountability.

8.     Environment  send nuclear waste to space, rubbish

The future of the Earth is very dependant of the global environment. We as humans are taking all we can from the Earth, but we are not putting anything back. So we should use technology and science to discover ways to help the planet. How can we re-create the tropical forests that are being butchered? How can we replace the oxygen making plantation, that helps our climates and humans to breathe air? How do we rid ourselves of harmful waste, like nuclear?

So with the improvement of technology it will become possible in years ahead to be able to use our space technology and send nuclear waste on space shops in order to be placed on an asteroid passing t4h UK and will not return for thousands of years.

As we begin to understand the different things on our planet we should be able to:

Create rain

Stop tornadoes

Create oxygen

Control climates

Clean the planet and in particular where there is poverty.

Create perfect conditions for plants, animals, etc like the Eden project on Cornwall.

9.     Lifestyle

As I mentioned earlier, materialism will reduce. If we take the UK alone, there are divides between the North and the South and the working and living quality. We will see a more modular form of home that is made of a resin type of product. These housing parts will be made available in Pods that are based on a plug and play basis. What I mean is that houses will be made by adding and subtracting housing pods which are already wired, plumbed etc and all we need to do is plug into the mains. These pods can be piled upwards and outwards, but more importantly can be disengaged and then transported elsewhere. So in fact you can move your home very easily. This will promote less derelict areas and the building of communities very quickly. Also the pods will be able to be recycled and sold again and therefore cutting the cost of the home over years.

Areas of countries that are derelict with economies gone, can be rejuvenated with new people and new housing, however, it has to be noticed that certain manufacturing businesses have gone.

In the North of the UK we have seen Steel works, Ship building, mining, car making etc all leaving the areas and they have left massive unemployment. The problem is that people still fight for the old work to return , but it won’t, as it’s been lost to the country and gone to maybe China. Therefore, the government and the people have to think of new business to provide employment. This will mean re-educating people in these areas. Unions have in fact lost their standing and are still fighting a losing bale. However, when this is realized it will bring a gasp of air and plans can be made to find a new service to employ and rebuild the area.

At the moment Detroit is another area to be in the same position. It’s filed for bankruptcy as the motor industry has gone. If corporations had looked ahead, they would have seen this and maybe the new workers committees would have made them away of the need to diversify.

As I have mentioned already, people will look into themselves and find a way to rebalance their lives.

This may mean for people to have 2 or 3 jobs to earn money, Help the community and social projects and in the end improve their Lifestyle.

10.           Education

An increasing improvement for technology, will promote lessons from home or from smaller schools.
Lessons will be given by one teacher to several hundred pupils at all levels. Lessons will be given by one teacher to several hundred pupils at all levels.
Technology will allow global lessons with social forums for extra learning or working groups of all nationalities.

This will promote a single curriculum for education at all levels.

11.           Energy 

Oil – Saudi Arabia only has enough  oil stocks for about 25 years. Most people don’t know this yet, but this will be the next major shock for governments. Only then will they place money into a speedier programme to find other energy sources.
Cars as an example will need to become much more efficient so instead of covering 35 miles to the gallon, they will have to make 120 miles to the gallon in order to use less petrol/Diesel, because one thing is for sure and that is the price of oil per barrel will rise to between 500-1000 dollars a barrel.
Power station s will have to become far more efficient than they are now for the same reasons.

The new process of ‘Fracking’ for Gas is also only a short term project.

There is one main thing in common here and that is, we as humans are great at taking things out of the Earth, but we cannot put anything back into the Earth. Oil is a decomposition of trees and plantation, but aren’t we demolishing this for short term gains?  How will oil be produced later in centuries, when we are not replacing the plantation.

We see re-usable energy projects by the governments. The only thing is that these are short term follies for political gains. Look at wind power! We are placing windmills in the sea, on land, but in fact it’s much more expensive than other forms of creating energy, but most of the time this cost is hidden by government funding.

The turbines used have a limited life time and to replace them is very expensive, but this seems to be overlooked when trying to sell the concept. I guess you have to ask yourself, how comes the Dutch windmills didn’t last?

The only reusable energy that can be used that is natural is the sun. As long as the sun is still bright, we will live as humans. So why don’t we use the poor African countries to house solar farms to a degree to transport the energy back to various countries. At the moment it’s down to cost, but what the governments should look at is to make solar panels and reusable energy, much more efficient. How about instead of having 10 solar panels on your house rook with a measure of about 4 foot by 2.5 feet and replace with a panel that can do the same work but is only the size of an A4 size of paper. How about making a solar panel the size of A5 to run a air condition unit that also can provide hot air? So the order of the day is efficiency with much smaller unit to obtain solar power. Space technology can also be combined with this efficiency by using satellites to direct the sun rays to the UK and therefore, making it even more concentrated.

12.           Social & Community

With the changes in the Corporate world, the changing of how we approach our lifestyle, this will promote a better community and social environment. Being at home more working will provide families the ability to spend time together as well as interact with the community more. Corporate companies will provide more involvement with the family by promoting family involvement with the company the family member work. The Corporate involvement of community and education projects will allow people to meet their neighbour’s  instead of being at work all day and not seeing who you live near.

So communities will have committees who work together to make the community a better place to live and how family values can improve, which in turn will reduce divorce rates.

13.           Conclusion

As we are now moving to a phase that is between the 3^rd and 4^th Phase, we will see a more dramatic change in the planet and its inhabitants actions. One thing for sure is that actions by people will become worse, before they become better. We will see more riots due to political disruption and also due to economic chaos. People with no work, become restless and then create chaos, this is a normal activity, but it has to become pretty bad before the government will take notice.

We can see that manufacturing is shifting from the West towards the East, as Chine becomes a powerhouse for industry and will hold the West to ransom.

We can also see that moving forward that Russia will hold the West to ransom for Gas and Oil.

However, due to the economical situation, what the western governments cannot see, is the problems building by allowing China to buy into its basic needs like: Electricity, Gas, Communications etc.

In the UK we saw China buying out EDF which is one of the National Grid companies. I warned at this time that China now had a means to hack into the internet traffic and to eventually hold the UK to ransom as a supplier of electricity. Within weeks there was a large amount of hacking going on with corporate sites and the provider servers. After investigation, it was suggested that the hacking came from China!

We can see that China is gradually taking over Africa and they have taken the ship building in Greece. Eventually, the Russians will wake up and start to take over Europe in order to prevents its energy sales. What about the USA I hear you say. Well, I’m afraid that the great power of America is diminishing and eventually it will have power over the Americas only.

Overall, we are seeing a Global Stewardship being created, because although we will have some power struggles, we will have to be aware of our surroundings and our environment. So if china takes the manufacturing sector, other countries will be noted for their specialty. So we could have the UK for Financial Services, Sweden for medical, Finland for mobile telephony etc. So each country will produce something for the world!

People will look to balance their life and family and what can we do if we live longer. How can we improve the human being and what we do with our working life and integrate the two for the better of not only our families but for the glob al good.