Governments (most notably the EU and US) have borrowed far more than they ever have in history, to the point that they’re now facing insolvency.

There’s a train coming down the track toward us and it’s now picking up speed. But unlike the man in the photo, we can’t simply fold up our newspaper and take our rocker from the tracks.

Advances in technology will, in the new millennium, be coming at us so fast that, ultimately, they will outstrip the ability of governments to control them. And this, of course, is a very good thing.