Welcome to WIRED UK readers of the feature “See Into The Future”.  Join 12 million others as you explore the huge globalchange.com site, and watch hundreds of Futurist videos (1.6 million views). WIRED magazine launched April 2009 featuring Patrick Dixon’s quotes on future trends, first print run of 100,000, aiming for 50,000 regulars.

I have in my pocket a $10 trillion dollar bill – printed in Zimbabwe a few weeks ago, but when I was there, not enough to buy half a loaf of bread. Country hit by inflation running of 1 billion % a year. Zimbabwe experience puts global economic crisis into context.  I'm a Futurist, an advisor to many of the world's largest banks on global trends, and a keynote speaker at many of their most important events.

At a time of global fears about inflation (2007-8) and deflation (2009) it is good to look at the wider picture, why life will continue relatively unchanged for most people, why we are likely to see inflation become a major problem again, and why we are likely to see political instability in some nations, and even fall of governments.

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