TokyoMango's Lisa Katayama has kicked off a new column on Asian futurism for IO9 with five predictions about the future of China:
1. The dystopic Communist regime will continue.
While some China experts think that democratization is an inevitable first step to total economic domination, Andy Nathan, author of How East Asians View Democracy, believes otherwise. "China has authoritarian resilience," he says. "If (the current regime) was not supposed to survive modernization, it's proving very adaptable." In other words, as long as Hu Jintao's government can prove itself efficient albeit its shortcomings, the people will continue to sustain their loyalty to it.
Coming Soon from China: Dystopic Futures, the Next Steve Jobs, and a World Full of Drumming Androids
