The World in 2050: Characteristics of New Rising Powers

Could technological advancements be the key to achieving geopolitical power? Dr. George Friedman, Founder and Chairman, Geopolitical Futures, contributes his knowledge in a session titled "The World in 2050: Characteristics of New Rising Powers."

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[cheeliekho]

Pardon me to correct a fact. The Mobile phone was not discovered by US but by Russians. Leonid Ivanovich Kupriyanovich started research in 1955 and in 1957 he had created a device to work within a 30 km range. The first mobile phone is the "Altai" phone and is the size of todays handphone. It went on sale in 1963, 10 years ahead of Motorola. It is due to the cold war that Russian scientific achievements were not reported in the western media.

[ebonicalbert]

We are already in the big crash, Inflation is a catastrophe. This CPI report is a colossal failure. To bring the housing market to a halt, the FED will have to pull all the stops. The unfortunate issue is that other markets are being decimated. If you want to stay green, you have to rely on a lot of diversification. Currently up 14% and being careful. Still a better deal than leaving it in a savings or checking account yielding 0-1 percent interest.

[brettquimby]

I’m gonna use the past to predict the future and say that Friedman is going to be wrong on most, if not all, of his predictions. His early 90s book ‘The Coming War with Japan’ comes to mind.

[michaeltrent]

The real problem is not rising powers in a nation sense. It's a combination of unelected bureaucrats holding total power over several nation states. It's individuals and corporations amassing enough power to threaten host nations

[tanbw]

If things go wrong for you, and you need someone to cheer you up, regardless of the truth, this is the guy for you.

[Underheaven]

George doesn't make predictions, he simply conveys the plans of his friends in the uppity up circles

[zombiestory]

How this man has built such a career on never ever being right it's just astonishing

[diannerussell]

He got that right when he said that humans are not nice creatures. They are impacting on themselves and on each other and the earth in a huge way.

[mvfplanet]

This man is simplifying things more than allowed

[julianton]

His version of the history of the mobile phone is partially fantasy. Yes, the US military innovated a lot of the technologies applied in mobile and online devices. But Apple and iPhone came much later and Nokia from Finland was market leader with an almost 35% share of world market, when Apple didn‘t have a mobile phone yet.

[siddhantgarodia]

Well no offense to anyone but Japan is aging rapidly and its economy is more or less stagnant from a long time, i don't know about Poland, but turkey too is suffering from a bad economic crisis. I don't understand why he picked these countries. He didn't even provide his reasoning.

I would say emerging superpowers are mostly in South-Asia, SE-Asia and Africa

[BuHaidar]

That’s DM “direct marketing” for U.S services in the region by attacking in indirect way to other countries, like Russia and China.
Anyone can talk and pretend he or she know more than others, but at least if he can show some facts and figures from independents resources, and be more realistic without any obvious bias he is.
He is a good marketer 👍

[adsesanchez]

To solve security issues is to remove technology from weapons, then remove all weapons. Magic!

[johnsmith-]

I really enjoyed this. I like a good stand up comedy from time to time.

[vonbon]

Go George!

Parachuting this arch realist into a 'World Government' conference clearly shows that someone has a diabolical sence of fun.

Well done to whomever is responsible.

[fakenews]

This gentleman sounds like he had a glass of wine to many .

[seanteh]

This guy can't even see 2021 clearly let alone 2050.

[emeryfinanceinc]

As AFRICANS we see Mr Fredman as a man who acts the terrific Hollywood scenario's just like Clint Eastwoods....

[spiderman]

I don't see much in his speech apart from praising the US and demeaning other great nations

[JK-ixzi]

He counsels to look far back into the future, but he doesn't look back far enough himself! If he did, he'd see that from year 0 to 1800AD that China and India were always the dominant economies in the world.