In 2029...

In 2029 I'll be 41.  If I get that far in life.  I mean, it's 20 years from now.  Eek, old age.  Old smelley age.

Anyway, one of the perks of studying business trends (in economics and international business anyway), is that you get to see a snapshot of the future.  So, you know the EU?  The European Union, with its almost combined economic and fiscal policies and it's (at first) controversial unified currency?  The one that won't let certain countries, like Turkey or the Ukraine, in because of human rights, religion, values, and economics (or something like that)?  Yea, well, by 2021, Turkey will be in the EU.

And by 2019 UNASUR will be fully established.  UNASUR will be most of the Latin American countries, united with common global goals, a common currency, and modeled after the EU.  Surprisingly, this scares a lot of people.  But I have a feeling that after a lot of fighting like little children, UNASUR will be more open to trade and the countries (like Venezuela) that are unstable will straighten up a little and the GDP Per Capita will go up (um...for none business people, that means that everyone will have more money).

Basically the model the EU and UNASUR will make the world into continents that are countries.  Like the United States, there will be very large tracts of land, many countries (states) with free travel in between, a common currency, "state" governments, and an overall fiscal/economic control.  Weird, eh?

I've heard rumors that eventually these will overlap.  Finally making everyone's dream of world control possible.  

But, we'll talk about that in about 30 years...