The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century rule, the analysis predicted that regional fragmentation was now a less-likely scenario for China, with the most probable result being the re-imposition of strict authoritarian rule. It is unknown at present what implications this has for the books further predictions, such as the Third World War and the US conflict with Mexico. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century The Next 100 Years is a 2009 book by George Friedman. In the book, Friedman attempts to predict the major geopolitical events and trends of the 21st century. Friedman also speculates in the book on changes in technology
Slavery in the United States national average. (Note: This is also true of contemporary incomes in the United States in the early 21st century.) Lindert and Williamson argue that this antebellum period is exemplary of what economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson call "a reversal of fortune". Economist Thomas Sowell, in his essay "The Real History of Slavery," confirms the observation made by de Tocqueville, by comparing slavery in the United States to slavery in Brazil. He notes that slave societies reflected similar economic trends in those and other parts of the world, suggesting that the trend Lindert and Williamson identify may