2 Business in the future will not be based on impersonal contracts but rather on personal relationships like the way Chinese clans operate than the way business is done in North America today.
3 Japan is in trouble. The factors which allowed it to grow until now are exhausted and the system in place is having trouble accepting the required changes.
4 Europe has the potential to be the next superpower but is and will be held back by its deep social problems.
5 By the end of the next century, there will be very few Italians, Spaniards and Japanese left. This is just extrapolating current population trends.
6 Today's college campuses are totally unsuited and unneeded for education. In 30 years the kind of courses given by satellite and video today will have made campus buildings obsolete.
7 These are some of the predictions made by Peter Drucker in a far-ranging interview in Forbes Magazine which can be read here. We are in for some unexpected changes and small business will be able to cope much more easily than large corporations.
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