Generational Dynamics
	Forecasting America's Destiny ... and the World's
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Presentation: A Marketable Methodology for Forecasting the Future by Analyzing Generational Changes

Introduction: The market for forecasting

Public sector: Foreign policymaking, military planning. Private sector: Multinational corporate management, international investment; polling (survey) models. Domains: hard predictions about worldwide events, politics, culture, economics, and international finance.

A brief trip around the world

How to understand today's trouble spots from a generational point of view: Iraq, Mideast, Haiti, Korea, Japan, China, Russia, Southeast Asia. Concepts of forecasting methodology.

A history of Western civilization

Cycles in American history; crisis wars versus mid-cycle wars; the Principle of Localization and merging timelines in West European history. The rise of Judaism, the lives of Jesus and Mohammed.

Orthodox Christianity versus Islam

The world focus on Jerusalem; the development of the coming "Clash of Civilizations"

Economic cycles

Global technology cycles (Kondratieff cycles); regional generational cycles; a new "Great Depression"?

Myths and reality about war

The nine civilizations. Fault lines by religion, ethnicity, skin color, language, geography. The Malthus effect and market-dominant minorities. The human need for sex and genocidal war. Forecasting riots, demonstrations, changes of attitude

The next century

The 2010s, the 2020s, the 2030s and beyond.

Summary and Future Directions