Part 1 of 11 SBNOW.org Presents: A New World: What Emerges After the Collapse?

Very thoughtful analysts and theoreticians are now suggesting that we are at the beginning of a full-scale meltdown of the world's financial system - not just a recession. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, extraordinary investor and author of The Black Swan, and mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot now believe that this financial failure has the potential to be the most significant event since the American Revolution. Couple that with a rapid shift in the planet's climate system, rising food prices, and a reorganization of the world's energy regime, and one has the makings of an historical shift in the way we all live that is unlike anything anyone alive has ever considered or experienced. At the same time, extraordinary breakthroughs in science and technology promise that much of what we find familiar will soon be obsolete and give themselves up to amazing new capabilities that seemed like science fiction only a handful of years ago. We are in the beginning of an epochal shift that will ultimately produce not only a new world, but also new humans that have a new set of values and perspectives. Leading world futurist John Petersen explores not only what is happening and might happen - but also what might come out of it all.

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