Happy thought for Friday

A friend sent a link to this video on YouTube; he's familiar with the majority of claims it makes and says that:

With the exception of some of the (possibly extreme) extrapolations near the end, all of these figures are familiar to me and they are fairly well established. Some of them in fact are even rather old... like from Alvin Toffler old even.

One excerpt to kick off your weekend:




Worth viewing the whole thing - the music makes it particularly scary for some reason.