It's time to batten down the hatches:
[W]e are seeing what looks like a tectonic shift in employment patterns which may, or may not, be connected with some underlying technological transformation. Global demography looks pretty bad too with at one and the same time too many old people concentrated in some places and too many young people in others and apparently not enough young females in particular in some of the latter. Environment looks shaky as well (and it’s not climate change which concerns me so much immediately as it is that the oceans are looking increasingly like sewers without fish).
Yglesias contrasts "intellectually interesting" future crises to the problems we currently face.
The Dish 