The only thing about the future of human society that can be accurately predicted is that folks will try to predict about the future of human society. Or, to put it in bobblehead mainstream media headline parlance, “Experts Surprised by [Fill in the Blank].”

Maybe human society mimics (on a macro scale) a kind of quantum mechanics- by observing it, you can change the results. After all, the Universe is nothing if not humbling to those who want to explain it…..