52 things that are more important than Brexit - including mushrooms

I know it seems that Brexit (or not-Brexit for that matter) is the most significant and momentous thing that has happened anywhere or anywhen. The chattering classes have nothing else to talk about - everything from the cost of coffee to the price of a flat in Mayfair is washed through the "what does this mean for Brexit" mill. Well I'm here to suggest that when other folk look back at 2017 in fifty years time they'll see some other things that were more important to the future of mankind - even of that small bit of mankind living in the UK.

I did a little list of those things that might be more important than Brexit.

1. Driverless cars and autonomous transport technology
2. Neo-Luddite campaigns opposed to digital disaggregation, AI and robots
3. Better drones enable African development without roads or rail
4. Electricity supply systems (power supply, microgeneration, disagregation, off-grid)
5. Fracking, renewables lead to declining reliance on oil (impact on economy, on geopolitics)
6. Private space travel
7. Colonising Mars
8. Non-national living, seastedding, artificial islands, cruise living
9. Declining fertility rates in rich countries
10. Continuing population pressures in poor countries
11. Migration from poor places to rich places
12. International migration, people trafficking, refugees
13. Integration and community cohesion in a world with more migration
14. Food production and distribution - feeding the world: GMO, animal welfare
15. Changing diets as poor nations become richer
16. Big killers - malaria, AIDS, and so forth
17. Antibiotics
18. Medical technology
19. Continuing urbanisation with associated health and societal problems
20. The future of care and health provision in an ageing society
21. Loneliness
22. Declining rates of functional literacy as technology reduces need to read and write
23. Ideological bias in education - especially higher education
24. Decline in religious worship leading to more extremism from faith groups
25. Intellectual property, copyright and piracy
26. Scientifical and technical literacy
27. Cyberterrorism, cybercrime and cyberwar
28. Pornography and sexual exploitation
29. Women's rights
30. Rogue states, civil war and terrorism
31. Break up of established nations - Spain, Italy, UK, USA?
32. Climate change - resilience, technological response, economic impact
33. Environmental degradation, desertification
34. Reforestation, rewilding
35. Flooding and flood mitigation
36. Water supply and water quality
37. Pollution of the oceans
38. Digital disruption of elite white collar business (law, accountancy, banking)
39. FinTech and its challenge to central banking system of financial management
40. 3D Printing and associated technologies
41. Impact of Internet of Things on human productivity
42. The 'gig' economy, self-employment - rights and protections
43. Chinese monopoly of African resources
44. China becoming a net importer of goods
45. Remote warfare - drones, military robots
46. Nuclear proliferation
47. Mushrooms (or rather fungi in building, medicine and environmental management)
48. Nanotechnology
49. Biotechnology including 'bionics'
50. Break up of blue collar/white collar political order
51. Impact of digital technology on democratic institutions
52. England winning the World Cup (well we can dream!)

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