Starting with a keynote about change. Some very interesting statistics and predictions from various studies about 2050, but a couple of things that don't make much sense.

First of all, given the political realities, I doubt that we can even inaccurately predict what the world will look like in 2050. Trying to predict what the world will look like in 2008 from 1968 would have been a fool's errand. Second, economic realities of the last 3 months suggest that the demise of United States as the world's lone superpower has been greatly exaggerated.

So here we have a preso that is still based on the 1st half of 2008. Good luck basing any predictions on that :)

Aleks