I was watching BBC News 24 and the front cover of the Jewish Chronicle (the main Jewish News paper in Britain) when it hit me that a number of my predictions that I have made in the past are starting to come true. Isrealis are starting to realize that the Egyption state is losing control of the Sinaiand the newly anointed 44th president of the United States is explaining the Congress is going to have to spend a vast amount of money to stop the entire country going down the drain!

In fact I believe that I have been thinking this for sometime. For the last few yearsI quickly found out that the society I lived in along with most of the rest of the West had ceased to manufactured goods. In the end we were just doing services banking, finance, fashion consultants, IT designers,magazines industry and Media.

You have to ask the question can a society that makes the best such a designs and risk not being able to make the items the designers design?we produce such great artists like Norman Foster but if you want a plumber he has to be Polish or if you want a decent car it has to be German or Japanese. However even when you look at Japan and Germany you quickly noticed that even these countries are moving alway from making things and have eventually moved into service heavy industries.

It seems to me that societies, countries and civilizations go through phases They start by building themselves up in inventing new inventions that mean they progress to the dizzying heights. However once they reach the top of their game they eventually become lazy they stop fighting wars, developing or inventing new ways of thinking the result is a rapid decline. It's my belief that the West has reached that stage and I for one believe that it will never recover. The reason it will never recover is that the West is actually now being replaced or to put it more accurately it is becoming something else.

If the period between the 15th century and the 20th century mocked the rise of the West the 21st century seems to mark the West's rapid decline. In fact if you look at the rest of the world, Indian and Chinese to be disappearing in many respect sculture seems to be rapidly merging with their neighbors,in Africa the Chinese are rapidly taking over and in North America the societies that are rapidly becoming a mixture of European, Latin American and Asian culture which is slowly mergerying with mainland asai. It seems to me likely that within a few centries we will have a global civilization. States will rapidly look like just provinces of the world. It seems certain to me that eventually languages will also standardize themselves the more interconnected the world becomes the more homogeneous it becomes. The more homogeneous it becomes the more likely that you one bit to tell the difference between Lebanon or California or Eastern China based on culture. It will be a lot like when you walk into a old European town and they tell you that a tribe used to live there. The tribe didn't die out what they usually do is they married into the local population I believe that's the future for the people of many countries. in fact even if genetic engineering becomes extremely commonI suspect people will genetically engineer for the same traits.

They will want strength, power and intelligence the result will be people who will be incredible however as everyone else is then they will want to be even greater. Welcome to a brave new world it may however be very boring!

It may be decades and centuries into the future but it's still our future...