In his article The Future That Has Already Happened (The FUTURIST Magazine, November 1998), management theorist Peter Drucker wrote that it is “pointless to try to predict the future, let alone attempt to look ahead 75 years.” But, he said, it is possible “to identify major events that have already happened, irrevocably, and that therefore will have predictable effects.” It is possible, in other words, to identify and prepare for the future that has already happened. Drucker had a gift for clarity, for stating the obvious in a simple way that the rest of would take years to comprehend. “The dominant factor for business in the next two decades absent war, pestilence, or collision with a comet is not going to be economics or technology,” he wrote. “It will be demographics. The key factor for business will not be the overpopulation of the world, of which we have been warned