Serious predictions - one way of seeing our lives in 2020. Personal transport will be being phased out, replaced by satellite controlled electric pods that you dial up for, enter the postcode of your destination whether it is Asda or Edinburgh and off you go at a automatically controlled speed taking the easiest route, giving predictable arrival times.  Using anti crash technology, we'll travel in road trains, saving electric.  Air travel will be curtailed, with planes only flying when full of people and produce.  Large manufacturing will be exported by ship globally using mile high kites catching the trade winds.  Food will be produced locally using polytunnels, greenhouses and solar.  ‘Travel' to the ‘workplace' will be old fashioned, with the majority of non physical work being done remotely using web conferencing and laptop from home.  Power grid systems will change as we rely less on coal and oil and instead turn to wind and sun and wave.  Every new house will have its own micro generating system, solar water heaters and an inbuilt wind turbine constantly recharging batteries.  We'll bring solar panels to the deserts, creating power for all, and we will learn how to separate hydrogen from water and turn it into fuel with hydrofusion.  Nanotech will rule, whether it is in building the new rubber buildings or replacing old bones, joints, eyes and teeth using the latest stem cell technology.  We will live in a global community, with robots caring for the infirm and elderly, linked electronically through the global web.  There will be an end to fossil fuel extraction and land abuse, and our symbiosis with nature will be more pronounced.  And our spiritual growth will become more personalised and less theological, creating a society where we all take personal responsibility for our situation and bring the blame culture to an end.  And the impetus for this, the dynamic needed to accept these inevitable changes, is beginning now and over the coming seven months.  I know I exaggerate, but to my mind we are now on the literal brink of the most important time of human history, and that by September the future is going to be a lot clearer than it is now.