more Stratfor predictions

Despite my interest in long-range futurology (even when wildly off the mark, it frees up the imagination when reading it) I won’t have time to read George Friedman’s book for awhile. But I did just watch another of his video spiels, and here’s what he says there:

*the U.S. will become the Saudi Arabia of solar power, by the aforementioned method of space-based panels beaming power back to earth in microwave form

*Europe ruled the world for 500 years but will weaken in this century, with much of the regional influence filled by a resurgent superpower: Turkey

*by the end of the century, though the U.S. will rule the world even more than before, it will be deeply uneasy in North America due to the rise of another power: Mexico

*North America will end up as the center of global power for several centuries to come

That rise-of-Turkey prediction helps explain his hypothesis of a Japan/Turkey vs. U.S. war in around 2050 in outer space. (I don’t even care if it’s as wrong as his 1992 prediction of a new Japan vs. U.S. war in the near future. It’s fun that anyone in the forecasting business is going that far out on a limb.)