The world will see a great shift as to who is in control and the manner in which they are capable of sustaining control. The Middle East
has held the World Powers hostage through the keys to the oil kingdom.
The stranglehold will gradually loosen as diverse methods of energy are
explored with avid determination. It will not occur all at once but the
shift will be evident. The constant turmoil in the Middle East
will take a backseat to a desire to reinvent the economy. That will
occur due to an increasing emphasis on creating fuel not dependent on
the Middle East. Eventually everything will require conversion, whether
it has to deal with cars, aircraft, heating, machinery-and that will
invent new jobs. During the interim, the United States will utilize
their own natural resources.
Pandemonium will occur in California
due to an economy that is rapidly sinking into oblivion. The illegal
sector which thrives on black marketing will have a greater power in Los Angeles
and other Metropolitan areas of California. The plunge will be further
exacerbated by the ill fated movie industry strikes. Los Angeles has
become more dependent upon the movie industry and television
production after the aerospace industry began to fade. The television
and movie dollars kept many businesses in Los Angeles floating. Alan
Rosenburg will chase
production into Southern States which are “Right to Work” and the SAG
will not have any leverage. Where there is no work and hungry people,
crime increases. The greatest problems will be that many of the
perpetrators will be the illegal immigrants from countries at war, who
are currently experts in survival and the ones who wouldn’t ordinarily
be experts will take lessons from people like Jerry Bruckheimer.
The challenges will out weigh the solutions on many levels.
California’s Governor Schwarzeneger will be put to the test as the
crime increases in the high income areas.
The year will
witness a religious revival. People will be more attracted to
ritualized worship and (believe it or not) movies or shows with
morality. Love stories and entertainment which infuses values into the
plot will make a come back. Concurrently in the entertainment industry,
new camera equipment will be developed which is smaller and easier to
manipulate which will eliminate positions such as the steady cam
operator and the gaffers involved with tracks and lighting. An increase
in AFTRA programming with 3-5 camera shoots will further weaken SAG and
increase the power of The Producers in the event of strikes. More people scrambling for work wears away the fiber producing bargaining power.
This year will be the curtain for many survivor and reality shows. The
audience who is taking on boarders will not want to watch quasi
-celebrities flaunt their wealth.
Agriculture will take on
inventive measures to imitate nature in limited spaces. Vegetables and
fruits will be harvested in confined areas in such great volume that
there will be an abundance and there will be no rationale for hunger.
The lack which will occur due to the extreme weather conditions, will
be off set by new age agriculture. Again a market place is born out of
necessity, the mother of invention. There is the capability now,
however, the laws of supply and demand dictate production profits to the disadvantage of the hungry.
Californians
will have an opportunity to participate in the New Age Farming. That
would be the harbinger of California Reinvention. First it was gold,
then silver, then aerospace, movie industry, and agriculture- then it
all faded. Agriculture will be a part of the comeback… Again new
techniques for storage, shipping, and handling will have to be
invented. There will be new roads engraved on the map, and a new
direction born.
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